{"id":160574,"date":"2026-02-19T00:36:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/160574\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T00:36:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:36:24","slug":"st-pete-police-officer-arrested-for-domestic-battery-pcso-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/160574\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete police officer arrested for domestic battery: PCSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tue, February 17, 2026 at 5:49 PM UTC<img alt=\"&lt;div&gt;Courtesy: Pinellas County Sheriff's Office&lt;\/div&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1242\" height=\"699\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/a52328b2546d18f77ecf428f77117dd4.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy: Pinellas County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>The Brief<\/p>\n<p>Pinellas County deputies arrested a St. Petersburg police officer on a domestic battery charge.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said Curtis Wright, who is assigned to the uniform patrol bureau, is on parental leave until March 6.<\/p>\n<p>On March 7, Wright will begin an administrative assignment. After his court proceedings are completed, he will undergo an internal investigation through the Office of Professional Standards.<\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pinellas County;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Pinellas County<\/a> deputies arrested a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/st-petersburg?page=2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:St. Petersburg;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">St. Petersburg<\/a> police officer on a domestic battery charge.<\/p>\n<p>What we know<\/p>\n<p>According to the Pinellas County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Curtis Wright was arrested on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said Wright, who is assigned to the uniform patrol bureau, is on parental leave until March 6.<\/p>\n<p>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/clearwater-company-sues-city-graves-025022028.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Clearwater company sues city after graves found buried beneath property;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clearwater company sues city after graves found buried beneath property<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dig deeper<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/st-pete-police-officer-charged-with-domestic-battery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Documents show Wright, who has been with the St. Petersburg Police Department since 2010, was arrested in 2016,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Documents show Wright, who has been with the St. Petersburg Police Department since 2010, was arrested in 2016,<\/a> following an altercation with his live-in girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p>What we don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n<p>Investigators have not released information about the events that took place leading up to Wright\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s next<\/p>\n<p>On March 7, Wright will begin an administrative assignment. After his court proceedings are completed, he will undergo an internal investigation through the Office of Professional Standards.<\/p>\n<p>The Source<\/p>\n<p>This article was written with information provided in a press release from the Pinellas County Sheriff\u2019s Office and previous FOX 13 News reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tue, February 17, 2026 at 5:49 PM UTC Courtesy: Pinellas County Sheriff&#8217;s Office The Brief Pinellas County deputies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[76878,76879,76873,1325,76880,596,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-160574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-administrative-assignment","9":"tag-court-proceedings","10":"tag-curtis-wright","11":"tag-internal-investigation","12":"tag-office-of-professional-standards","13":"tag-pinellas-county","14":"tag-st-pete","15":"tag-st-pete-headlines","16":"tag-st-pete-news","17":"tag-st-petersburg","18":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","19":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160574","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=160574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}