LAKEWOOD, Wash.–In an unusual case, Washington State Employees Credit Union is challenging a felon’s demand for access to floor plans and security camera footage to one of its branches.
WSECU has obtained a temporary restraining order in Pierce County Superior Court to keep the records from being released to Arnold Flores, who was convicted in 2012 of cutting his wife with a box cutter and holding her and others inside a WSECU branch hostage with what was later determined to be a BB gun, according to The News Tribune. Flores was shot by police during the robbery, and later found guilty by a jury of first-degree kidnapping, second-degree assault and six counts of unlawful imprisonment. He’s currently serving a sentence of 17 years.
Earlier this year, the News Tribune reported, Flores filed a public records request with the City of Lakewood, Wash., regarding the shooting and, as part of that request, specifically asked for documents police got from the credit union, such as surveillance footage and floor plans of the building.
WSECU had provided those records to Lakewood police as part of the investigation. Police told WSECU it would comply with Flores’ records request unless it obtained a court order preventing it from doing so. WSECU then obtained the order.