{"id":121459,"date":"2026-01-17T02:51:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T02:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/121459\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T02:51:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T02:51:56","slug":"ex-st-petersburg-police-employee-pleads-guilty-to-misusing-confidential-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/121459\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-St. Petersburg police employee pleads guilty to misusing confidential database"},"content":{"rendered":"

A former St. Petersburg Police Department employee who pleaded guilty to providing information from confidential databases to a man who committed a crime had her charges reduced Friday and will serve a year of probation.<\/p>\n

Robin Conyers<\/a>, 61, was working as a traffic crash investigator in 2023 when she shared confidential information about a deceased owner of a car with Delon Walton, who used it to illegally transfer the vehicle and title to his name.<\/p>\n

Conyers\u2019 supervisor noticed during a routine quarterly audit that several entries were not work-related, according to police.When the discovery was turned over to the agency\u2019s Office of Professional Standards, they found that she used a false code to access the database.<\/p>\n

Conyers used her personal cellphone to call Walton and share the information with him, according to court documents.<\/p>\n

Later that day, Walton used the information to transfer a 2000 Lincoln to his personal landscaping and tree service business.<\/p>\n

Conyers was arrested in 2024 on a felony charge of unlawful use of a two-way communication device and misdemeanor offenses of misuse of confidential information and offenses against computer users. She was released on a $5,000 bond.<\/p>\n

Conyers retired from the agencyfive days after her arrest, according to police records. Police Chief Anthony Holloway wrote in a complaint that she would have been terminated if she had not retired.<\/p>\n

In court Friday, Pinellas Judge Philippe Matthey lowered the felony charge to a second misdemeanor charge of misuse of confidential information and agreed to grant Conyers probation.<\/p>\n

Walton, 47, was arrested in 2024 on charges of scheme to defraud, criminal use of the personal information of a dead person, perjury by false written declaration, and sale of a vehicle without delivery of title.<\/p>\n

Walton pleaded guilty in May under a different judge and is serving 18 months of probation, court records show. The sister of the car owner filed a no contact order against him.<\/p>\n

Conyers was the second St. Petersburg police employee to appear in court this week on charges of sharing confidential information from the Florida Driver and Vehicle Database, or DAVID.<\/p>\n

Brandon Klaiber, 41, shared confidential information<\/a> with a man accused of leaving homemade explosives in Tampa\u2019s Hard Rock Casino in 2024. Hewill have his charges dropped in a year if he completes a court program.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese employees violated the public trust by improperly accessing and disseminating confidential information,\u201d Holloway wrote in a statement to the Tampa Bay Times. \u201cThe St. Petersburg Police Department conducts regular, mandatory audits to ensure that all database access is strictly for legitimate law enforcement purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former St. Petersburg Police Department employee who pleaded guilty to providing information from confidential databases to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[60779,60025,60780,60781,60782,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-121459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-confidential-databases","9":"tag-confidential-information","10":"tag-delon-walton","11":"tag-personal-information","12":"tag-robin-conyers","13":"tag-st-pete","14":"tag-st-pete-headlines","15":"tag-st-pete-news","16":"tag-st-petersburg","17":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","18":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}