A Florida Keys sheriff’s deputy who met a woman while working security on the set of an Apple TV show allegedly used confidential law enforcement databases to track her down – then sped after her and pulled her over in what investigators say was an unauthorized traffic stop.
Deputy Lamar Eliseo Roman, 28, was arrested Tuesday on a charge of accessing a computer or electronic device without authority after investigators say he misused the databases to find a woman he met while working on the set of the show “Bad Monkey,” according to a Monroe County Sheriff’s Office warrant obtained by Local 10 News.
Authorities say Roman used the information to locate the woman and pulled her over on U.S. 1, at one point “almost caus(ing) a head-on collision” while speeding to catch up with her. Roman, who had been with the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office since May 2025, has since been fired.
Roman later admitted that he improperly searched the databases and told his fellow deputies that he just wanted to apologize.
“I mean, it’s a tough month and I saw a shiny thing and teasing and all that and I knew that when I put that I’m like ‘f***,’ and that’s why I just like I stopped right after and nothing else,” investigators said Roman told them.
It all began on February 3 after Roman noticed the woman getting off the extras bus on the set of “Bad Monkey,” a streaming series set in the Florida Keys starring Vince Vaughn and based on the novel by South Florida author Carl Hiaasen.
Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Lamar Eliseo Roman, 28, was arrested after investigators say he misused police databases to track down a woman he met on a TV set (Monroe County Sheriff’s Office)
Roman, who was working security on the set, “began whistling at her” and proceeded to “cat call” her, “very loudly” saying, “Oh my god, why didn’t nobody tell me we were bringing models to (the) set,” according to the report.
At some point, Roman and the woman, who was not identified, talked and the woman told him she had a boyfriend. Roman continued “flirting and joking” with her before they exchanged names and cellphone numbers, the report stated.
He allegedly “stated something along the lines of, ‘I need your name and number just in case I pull you over someday,’” according to the report.
Investigators say Roman then accessed Florida’s Driver and Vehicle Information Database, known as DAVID, as well as the Florida Crime Information Center/National Crime Information Center databases to look up the woman’s information. He also entered her license plate into a “hotlist,” which alerts officers if a vehicle is detected by license plate readers.
On February 19, the woman’s plate pinged on the system.
Dashcam footage reviewed by investigators allegedly shows Roman, who was on patrol that day, accelerating to about 70 mph on U.S. 1 while passing two dump trucks in a no-passing zone, then an SUV, in an attempt to catch up to the vehicle.
Investigators say Roman “almost cause(d) a head-on collision while passing as a white truck traveling northbound had to veer off the roadway” to avoid a crash.
About two minutes later, authorities say Roman pulled the woman over near Bobalu’s Southern Café on Big Coppitt Key. His in-car camera recorded video, but not audio, because he was not wearing his microphone.
According to the report, the woman later told investigators the stop made her “uncomfortable” because of Roman’s comments, including, “Oh, I thought you had a boyfriend.” She also questioned how he knew it was her vehicle. Investigators say Roman also asked her why she had not followed him back on Instagram. The traffic stop was never logged in official records.
“I told you I’d find you and pull you over,” he allegedly responded. “And I was hoping your boyfriend was in the car so I can pull him out and give him a hard time.”
In a March 4 interview, Roman told investigators that, regarding the traffic stop, “At that point I was just going to say ‘hi,’ you know, ‘got you’ and we were laughing and then that’s kind of it.”
Roman had been working security on the set of ‘Bad Monkey,’ a streaming series set in the Florida Keys when he noticed the woman and attempted to talk to her. He later looked up her info and pulled her over, according to court documents (Apple TV)
According to the warrant, the woman said “she did not want to pursue criminal charges against Deputy Roman.” However, the sheriff’s office moved forward with the case and arrested him on Tuesday.
In a statement after the arrest, Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay said he was “committed to keeping this community informed of significant events that occur in this agency — good and bad.”
Roman is scheduled to be arraigned in a Florida Keys courtroom on March 26.