Broward County Deputy Jerry Wengert has faced brutality allegations in four lawsuits since 2013.



INCIDENT: March 26, 2010



Kevin Buckler, 21



Cooper City gas station



Lawsuit filed Sept. 24, 2013



Status: Pending



Buckler spent two days hospitalized with a fractured face and eyes swollen shut after Wengert arrested him. The lawsuit claims Wengert pummeled Buckler after taunting him at the gas station and then pulling him over less than a mile away for blaring "excessively loud music." Wengert said Buckler was combative, blew smoke in his face, threw his cigarette at him, failed to comply with orders and fought him.



INCIDENT: Jan. 17, 2014



Humerto Pellegrino, 38, and Pedro Claveria, 37



Pompano Beach



Lawsuit filed March 13, 2015



Status: Pending



Behind a loading dock with train tracks, four men spray-painted graffiti on freight cars as police came upon them. The men claimed Wengert and another deputy "antagonized" a police dog to attack even after they had surrendered. According to the lawsuit, the men were taken by ambulance to an emergency room with open wounds.



The Broward State Attorney is investigating.



INCIDENT: June 5, 2014



Steven Jerold Thompson, 26



Pembroke Pines



Wrongful death lawsuit filed July 5, 2016



Status: Tentative trial date set Sept. 18, 2017



Wengert faces a wrongful death lawsuit for the on-duty killing of Thompson. Wengert said he was forced to shoot Thompson after Thompson shot at him. The lawsuit maintains that Thompson was unarmed and did not fit the description of iPhone robbery suspects the deputies were searching for. He was shot nine times.



A Broward County grand jury ruled the shooting was a justified use of lethal force.



INCIDENT: Nov. 9, 2014



Reginald Chatman, 34.



Lawsuit filed Dec. 9, 2014



Status: Pending



After leaving a CVS store, Chatman and a friend were stopped on suspicion of petty theft at a nearby gas station. Chatman thought a deputy was reaching for his Taser and ran away. After searching for nearly an hour, Wengert and his K9 found Chatman hidng under a bush. "Chatman cowered on the ground under a shallow bush and announced his surrender," the lawsuit claims.



Wengert's dog "latched onto Chatman's ankle and viciously tore at him for 15 to 20 minutes," the suit alleges. Chatman required numerous stitches and spent a month in the jail infirmary, according to the lawsuit.



The Broward State Attorney is investigating.