By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
An FBI agent is accused of chasing a teenager inside his home in California and pointing a gun at him over a prank – and the agent has yet to face trial nearly two years later.
“If this had happened to me, this thing would have been over and two months later, I’d be in prison,” father Chris Perry told CBS13. “I have more flashbacks and whacked out visions of it all the time.”
The horrifying incident happened in December 2017, when the boy was celebrating his 14th birthday. He and a friend decided to knock over an inflatable snowman on the FBI’s agent yard in Roseville.
The FBI agent, Michael Corrigan, is accused of chasing the teen to his home and then pointing a gun at him.
“I fly out of bed and I turn the corner and there’s a dude in my house, two feet inside my house pointing a gun at my son and his friend, and I just flipped and tackled him out the door. It was just panic,” Perry said.
Last year, the agent was charged with a felony. But after all this time, the case has still not gone to trial.
“It’s been two years. I just want some justice with it,” Perry said.
The FBI declined to comment on the case and whether the agent has been disciplined.
Defense attorney Bill Portonova responded in a written statement: “Special agent Michael Corrigan is an honorable family man with an exemplary career in law enforcement and he has full faith that these unfortunate proceedings will achieve a just end.”
On Friday, Corrigan was in court for a status conference, but no date has been scheduled yet for a trial.
