An allegedly inebriated Florida deputy is facing charges after a girl was struck by a bullet when he was trying to show his son how to clean an AR-15 rifle.
On November 23, an off-duty St. Lucie County Sheriff’s deputy was reportedly at home with several children.
According to reports, the man had been drinking, and he decided to teach his son how to properly clean an AR-15 rifle.
Late in the evening on October 30, a deputy who works at a jail in Benton County, Arkansas, was departing from a wedding that was held at the Crystal Rivers Museum.
According to reports, the deputy was using an unmarked county car as transportation to and from the celebration, and he reportedly had three pistols, a loaded rifle magazine, several boxes of ammunition, and a gas mask in the vehicle.
A Clay County deputy was relieved of his duties after being arrested a second time for allegedly driving while intoxicated, approximately 10 months after a previous DUI.
Last December, the director of corrections for the Bradford County Sheriff’s Office rolled through a stop sign and crashed into another vehicle. He was arrested for driving under the influence, and he pleaded no contest to the charge. His conviction led to his demotion to lieutenant.
On the night of October 15, the deputy was driving in town when his truck reportedly left the road and ended up in a ditch.
A Florida deputy was arrested after he allegedly got into a car accident in an unmarked sheriff’s office vehicle while reportedly driving under the influence of alcohol.
In May, a deputy who has been with the Broward Sheriff’s Office for five years was driving in an unmarked Ford Taurus at approximately 6:30 am.
The deputy, who was not on duty at the time, was allegedly driving an estimated 77 MPH, though the posted speed limit was 45 MPH.
A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy allegedly crashed a patrol car while driving under the influence and fled from the scene before the authorities arrived.
50-year-old Carlos Lopez is a sheriff with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Santa Clarita Valley Patrol. He is on the department’s Special Enforcement Bureau.
On the night of August 26, Lopez was driving his patrol car in the unincorporated community of Stevenson Ranch in the Santa Clarita Valley.
A Spotsylvania County sheriff’s deputy opened fire and shot a man that reportedly rushed at him with a large sword.
27-year-old Nicholas Gene Howell lives in Spotsylvania, Virginia.
On July 18, Howell was at his parents’ home. His parents and other family members were also at the house.
A mother in Texas lost her job as a deputy and is facing felony charges after being accused of using a taser to abuse her three children.
34-year-old Xochitl Ortiz resides in a home in Houston, Texas. She lives with and financially provides for her three sons, ages 11, 12, and 16.
Ortiz has worked in law enforcement as a deputy constable at the Harris County Constable’s Office for the past two years.
A Lee County deputy is one of three people facing charges for allegedly working together to plant drugs on a suspect to set him up for an unlawful arrest.
Niko Irizarry began working for the Lee County Sheriff’s Office in 2018. The sheriff reported that Irizarry had never been reprimanded in his time with the agency.
On December 16, 2021, Irizarry and two other men identified as 36-year-old Charles Custodio and 29-year-old Scott Snider allegedly orchestrated a plan to target a real estate agent for drug crimes.
A man who spent his career as a sheriff’s deputy in Southern California has been fired and taken into custody for allegations that he continuously sexually abused an underage boy.
50-year-old Jeremie Russell Cox is from Yucca Valley, California. He has worked as a deputy in San Bernardino County for 25 years. Since 2005, he has been on an assignment as a deputy at the Morongo Basin Jail.
According to the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Office public release regarding the matter, a male accused Cox of sexually abusing him on more than one occasion when he was under the age of consent.
A woman who was reportedly intoxicated was arrested after allegedly emerging from a Circle K bathroom without any pants or underwear on.
Early in the morning on June 3, a clerk was working his shift at a Circle K store in Umatilla, Florida, when a woman entered and went into the bathroom.
A deputy from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office was in the store when the woman came out of the restroom. He and the clerk reportedly saw she was not wearing any clothing from the waist down, and her body parts were on display.
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