A judge has ruled against a former Pasco County sheriff's deputy who claimed he was improperly fired from the agency. ...more

March 5, 2009

A Pinellas sheriff's sergeant has been suspended for a day after he stopped a car driven by a Pasco deputy in September and allowed someone to pick up the deputy, even though the deputy smelled of alcohol, according to sheriff's memorandums released today. ...more

December 2, 2008

A St. Petersburg police officer resigned amid allegations she falsified her application for a job with the department. Had Elisha Perkins not resigned, she would have been fired, according to a police memorandum released Monday. ...more

November 4, 2008

In one, Mayor Rick Baker is wearing a pink dress with a matching pink hat. ...more

July 26, 2008

In one, Mayor Rick Baker is wearing a pink dress with a matching pink hat. In another, police Chief Chuck Harmon's head has been put on an obscenely overweight body, and the chief is looking intently at a two-layer cheeseburger. Maj. Melanie Bevan appears as both a dominatrix and as the Wicked Witch of the West. These are among more than 180 computer-altered images internal affairs investigators collected as they looked into an allegation that a police officer had posted them online. They were made available today as the result of a public information request. ...more

July 25, 2008

On each side of his neck is a tattoo of a skull, and across his knuckles he had tattooed the expression, "Hard Luck," with a letter on each knuckle. To Pinellas sheriff's detention Deputy Aaron Simpson, his tattoos are an art form. To his bosses at the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, they constitute a violation of the sheriff's uniform and appearance policy. As a result, the six-year veteran was suspended for three days. ...more

July 18, 2008

A Clearwater police officer accused of wrongly arresting a 75-year-old woman at a McDonald's drive-through last month has been cleared of wrongdoing by his supervisors, according to an internal affairs file released Monday. ...more

February 5, 2008

About the only person who believes a Clearwater police officer wrongly arrested 75-year-old Jean Merola at a McDonald's drive-through last month is Jean Merola. ...more

February 4, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - A St. Petersburg police officer shot and killed a pit bull this afternoon after the dog reportedly bit a child, authorities said. ...more

January 4, 2008

A married deputy found in another woman's bed is one tidbit of information among many contained in dozens of pages of internal affairs documents released Friday, one day after it was made public that Bradshaw and Heather Clouser were punished for violating Sheriff Jim Coats' anti-adultery policy. ...more

December 28, 2007