“It just seemed like the right thing to do”
Former Moses Lake Police Chief Dave Ruffin, who now teaches law enforcement at the Columbia Basin Technical Skills Center, detained a man alleged to have threatened students with a handgun in the CB Tech parking lot on Wednesday. “It just seemed like the right thing to do,” he said.
Charles H. Featherstone
A still of Leonel Balderas-Mondragon taken from an MLPD officer’s body cam in the parking lot of the Columbia Basin Technical Skills Center on Wednesday. Balderas-Mondragon, 22, was arrested for allegedly threatening several students with a handgun in the CB Tech parking lot.
MOSES LAKE — Dave Ruffin does not teach his law enforcement students at the Columbia Basin Technical Skills Center to do what he did on Wednesday when he detained a male suspect believed to have a gun in the school’s parking lot.
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