A state trooper later charged with drunken driving and making an illegal arrest boasted that he was untouchable in the minutes before Baltimore County police stopped him, charging documents state.
“[Expletive] these county cops, they can’t do [expletive] to me,” Trooper Bruce Wrzosek, 22, told a passenger the trooper had just forced into the cruiser moments before his arrest Saturday on kidnapping, assault and false imprisonment charges.
At 2:34 a.m. county police were called to the Taco Bell at Loch Raven Boulevard and Taylor Avenue, where a drunk male claiming to be a state trooper was pulling people over, police said.
County police found Wrzosek — who was off-duty and not in uniform — getting into his cruiser and noticed the smell of alcohol on his breath, according to charging documents. As the county police officer started to ask Wrzosek questions, he sped off on Lock Raven Boulevard.
Wrzosek then led county police on an 85 mph chase, turning on his emergency lights and running a red light — before coming to a sudden stop, police said.
Wrzosek then failed a series of tests for drunkenness and blew a .20 on a blood-alcohol level test — more than two times the legal limit.
“That’s great, I’m drunk,” Wrzosek said, according to charging documents. “I’m done, lock me up.”
Inside Wrzosek’s vehicle was a male passenger, who told police he was in the drive-through at Taco Bell when the trooper forced him into the cruiser while yelling for everyone to “get the [expletive] out of the way” because he was a state trooper.
When county police arrived, Wrzosek allegedly told the passenger that they couldn’t touch him: “They can’t do [expletive] to me,” he said, according to charging documents.
The passenger said he told Wrzosek to slow down as he sped off at around 95 mph.
Wrzosek, of the 2500 block of Taylor Avenue in Baltimore, was fired this week from the state police.
