Five Texas Firefighters Arrested in Sexual Assault of Rookie

April 7, 2015
Six were arrested in connection with a hazing incident using a broom stick and chorizo sausage in Ellis County.

Five volunteer firefighters in Ellis County are under arrest, accused of sexually assaulting a rookie in the fire station. 

The laughing firefighters, who included officers, initially tried to use a broomstick, but then one said: "I have something better" as he retrieved a chorizo sausage from the refrigerator, according to court documents quoted by The Dallas Morning News. 

The victim reported the January assault at the Emergency Service District 6 Volunteer Fire Department in Waxahachie, on March 31. 

Keith Edward Wisakowsky, 26; Casey Joe Stafford, 30; Preston Thomas Peyrot, 19; Alec Chase Miller, 28; and Blake Jerold Tucker, 19. They were booked into the Ellis County Jail and charged with aggravated sexual assault, the paper reported. 

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Brittany Leanne Parten, 23, was charged with improper photography or visual recording.​

Tucker, Stafford and Wisakowsky bent the victim over on a couch, pulled down his pants and sexually assaulted him with a sausage, Texas Rangers wrote in the charging documents. 

When the victim crawled into a nearby bathroom to shower and clean up, someone took his clothes from the bathroom. He was then forced to cover up using his hands, police wrote. 

Miller, a lieutenant, was the Officer of the Year in the department last year. Wisakowsky also was a lieutenant. 

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