Ex-Port Richey Mayor Dale Massad agrees to plea deal after shooting at deputies
The disgraced mayor and ex-doctor is accused of shooting at a Pasco sheriffâs SWAT team that raided his home in 2019.
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Former Port Richey Mayor Dale Massad appears in court in 2019. Massad will plead guilty to several charges, attorneys said in court Friday, two years after he was charged with attempted murder after authorities said he shot at a Pasco County Sheriff s Office SWAT team as they tried to raid his house in an investigation into practicing medicine without a license.
Updated Feb. 26
Ex-Port Richey Mayor Dale Massad has agreed to a plea deal that will send him to state prison for three years, allowing him to avoid the potential life sentence he faced for firing on the deputies who raided his home in 2019.