ROTHENBURGER: Court ruling ends two years of stress for security guard
RICK ELDRIDGE got an early birthday present this week when an assault charge was taken off the books almost two years after an incident that led to it.
On Wednesday, he was instead ordered to do 40 hours of community service and avoid contact with the man he got into a physical confrontation with at the 48 Victoria Street West storage facility used by the street-entrenched.
“The world was lifted from my shoulders” when he was declared not guilty of assault, the security guard said as we sat down to talk about the good news.
Eldridge, who turns 58 this month, got a lot of media attention after he tried to move the guy away from a no-loitering area at the storage building and was caught on cellphone video putting him to the ground and kicking him.