An Orange County Sheriff’s deputy will be in court on March 2, facing allegations that he abused his boyfriend of four years, even forcing his partner at gunpoint to clean up blood after their altercations turned violent.
Angel Joel Carrion filed a petition for a temporary domestic violence injunction and restraining order against Master Deputy Bryan Villella, 46, on Feb. 18. but a judged denied the request pending the upcoming court appearance.
Captain Angelo Nieves from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office confirmed an internal investigation is also underway.
“Once the investigation has concluded, it will become a matter of public record and we can provide investigative conclusions and findings,” Nieves said.
He added that Bryan is still at work, doing the same job he did before the accuastions.
Carrion states that emotional and physical abuse started after Villella’s infidelity came to light. Up to that point, Villella had been suggesting a third sexual partner to Carrion for two years, but Carrion always refused, also ignoring small clues that Villella was having sex with multiple other partners. Carrion says that most altercations would occur after Villella had spent time in online chat rooms or away from home with other partners and that Villella made him clean up his own blood after one particular fight. Carrion decided to end the relationship in February 2009, after he found out at his birthday dinner that Villella had lied and taken another man on a three-day cruise weeks earlier. At that point, Carrion’s attempts to obtain a restraining order were denied, and he had trouble obtaining personal property from Villella’s residence.
“Law enforcement has been protecting its own,” Carrion said of his previous difficulty. “All that changed, I suppose after the Gay Days incident.”
It’s not the first time Villella has faced problems stemming from sexual relations. A Feb. 23 Orlando Sentinel article stated that in 2001, Villella’s ex-wife, Helen Mackenzie, made claims of domestic abuse during their five-year marriage. He was reprimanded by the sheriff’s office in 2002 for transferring $552 from his ex-wife’s account to his. The final official report could not confirm her allegations of abuse but did state, “It is clear Villella and Ms. Mackenzie have a history of domestic disturbances.”
In 2009, Villella’s employers docked 150 hours from his pay and placed him on disciplinary one-year probation for having semi-public sex with a male guest in an abandoned Royal Plaza Resort conference room. Villella was supposed to be working as an off-duty security officer for Gay Days. The internal investigations report states that Villella “violated the moral code” of being an officer.
