EXCLUSIVE: WOLFGANG HALBIG SUES LAKE COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPT & OTHERS – SANDY HOOK CONTINUES
Stephanie Sledge
On February 25, 2022, School Safety Expert and Former Law Enforcement veteran Wolfgang Halbig filed a lawsuit against the Lake County, Florida Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) and other defendants for violations of his US Constitutional first, fourth, fifth, and fourteen amendments rights. The Complaint lists a second cause as a RICO complaint, each seeking compensatory relief.
The suit claims that Defendant’s unlawful acts caused damage to Wolfgang Halbig. Halbig alleges they conspired, planned, and designed their actions to embarrass him publicly, damage him economically, silence his FOIA inquiries, and silence his investigations directed to government agencies.
Additionally, Halbig claims Officers of LCSO, acting under the color of law, intentionally, willfully, and wantonly subjected him to unnecessary force, illegal arrest, false imprisonment, and public humiliation.
Summary of Incident
On January 27, 2020, at approximately 1:30 am, about four Officers of the Lake County Florida Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) surrounded Wolfgang Halbig’s residence, where he was awakened from a deep sleep when his dog began barking.
He opened the door, and to his shock, deputies immediately placed Wolfgang under a felony arrest, handcuffed him, and marched him across a golf course (still in his nightclothes) to a patrol car. The Officers placed him into the backseat of the patrol car faced down, still handcuffed, unable to move, sit up, or use his seatbelt. Officers refused to let Wolfgang read the official warrant and immediately took him to the LCSO jail. He was booked at 3:18 am, where he learned his official charges were “Unlawful Possession of Personal Information of Another Person (Leonard Pozner, father of alleged dead child Noah Pozner in the Sandy Hook shooting).
Before the Sheriff’s Office’s official time of releasing the public information of his arrest at 11:57 am, national news outlets had already disseminated the breaking news of Wolfgang’s arrest. The New York Times already had the lead in hand by 5 am. No admittance or investigation has been made to date of this article regarding who released that information to the news media before the time listed on the Sheriff’s report. Wolfgang was released on a $5000 Bond and was to appear in Court the following month.
That morning and for the next several weeks, the national news published numerous articles targeted at Wolfgang’s reputation by referencing Wolfgang Halbig as the “Sandy Hook Denier” and as the “Notorious Sandy Hook Tormentor.”
National headlines claimed, “Sandy Hook Denier Charged with having the personal ID of Victim’s Dad.”
Halbig alleges,
“My injuries include humiliating national news coverage caused by defendant officers matching me across a golf course in shorts and undershirt and lies conveyed to the Media. Such lies, presumptions, assumptions, and characterization directly impacted my business properties and personal reputation within my community and on a national level. The false light lies have destroyed my national school safety consulting business and my Children’s Safety Institute company.”
Interestingly enough, the warrant left the courthouse as a misdemeanor but was served as a felony charge. The original arrest warrant classifies the charge as a misdemeanor, yet the arresting officers’ document was classified as a felony. When Halbig’s attorney demanded exculpatory evidence, the charges were reduced to the original misdemeanor and then assigned to traffic court. Months later, the charges were dropped via a Nolle Prosequi filing based on the following grounds:
“OTHER LEGAL ISSUES – IN ORDER TO BE HARASSMENT UNDER FLORIDA LAW, THE ACT CHARGED MUST BE COMPLETELY DEVOID OF LEGITIMATE PURPOSE. BECAUSE THE EMAIL IN THIS CASE WAS SENT ONLY TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES AND NEWS OUTLETS FOR THE STATED PURPOSE OF INVESTIGATING A POTENTIAL CRIME, THE STATE IS UNABLE TO PROVE HARASSMENT AS A MATTER OF LAW. Dated this the 7th day of April 2021.”
Wolfgang Halbig suffered from many lies at the time of his arrest. One such lie was contained within an LCSO Case Report when he was depicted as a “Mental Patient,” which the lawsuit describes as untrue, malicious, and defamatory. The Sheriff’s department provided no medical basis for such a lie and refused to give the source for such accusation.
At the time of the arrest, Halbig had separate written communications in progress with the office of the Lake County Sheriff, the Lake County District Attorney, the office of the Florida State Attorney, the FBI, and contacts within the US Department of Justice.
Wolfgang had filed FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) requests regarding information on Sandy Hook, and these communications continued to go unanswered and were not yet settled. Halbig filed Complaint after Complaint about the failure of responses to these FOIA requests.
In Connecticut, Wolfgang was finally granted a FOIA appeal hearing. It was scheduled for the following year, however that hearing provided no answers and virtually no usable documents.
For those new to the story, this is the second time Pozner filed a Complaint against Wolfgang Halbig. The first took the form of a lawsuit on 9/11/15. Two and one-half years later, Pozner did not show up on the day his discovery was due nor for his Court-ordered video deposition. Instead, Pozner dropped the lawsuit.
Wolfgang Halbig spent his career as a former Florida State Trooper, a school principal, and a nationally recognized school safety expert. He is considered one of the leading researchers into the Sandy Hook incident. (Click here to view an exclusive interview with Wolfgang by MBC (Media Broadcasting Center). This video is a recording of the hearing and a panel discussion of what transpired during the hearing. You may find another excellent video where Wolfgang Halbig addresses a group of school resource officers in New York State here.
A process server is set to serve the Summons and Complaint to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday,March 23, 2022. This action is a courageous step towards finding the truth about what happened at Sandy Hook on December 14, 2012.
The media has targeted many investigative journalists and other researchers who have brought the evidence of lying forward over the past nine-plus years. There were flaws in their movie production that went unnoticed to the general public but not to the trained professional such as Wolfgang Halbig.
This writer’s opinion is that the powers that should-not-be do not tell the truth about what happened at Sandy Hook. Hopefully, Wolfgang’s lawsuit will shed more light on one of the most egregious lies foisted upon the American Public.
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