{"id":186959,"date":"2026-03-11T08:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/186959\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T08:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:32:15","slug":"florida-keys-deputy-arrested-on-computer-crimes-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/186959\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Keys deputy arrested on computer crimes charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 10, 2026 at 4:31 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/7ATQ623OJBB33AYLUXKF4X6GHM.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>Photo Lamar Roman (MCSO) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">KEY WEST, Fla. \u2014 A now-fired sheriff\u2019s deputy in the Florida Keys was arrested by his former colleagues Tuesday afternoon \u201cfor misuse of law enforcement computers, computer networks and electronic devices,\u201d authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/03\/10\/arrestan-a-agente-de-los-cayos-de-florida-por-cargo-de-delitos-informaticos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/03\/10\/arrestan-a-agente-de-los-cayos-de-florida-por-cargo-de-delitos-informaticos\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Monroe County Sheriff\u2019s Office Deputy Lamar Eliseo Roman, 28, \u201cused law enforcement databases to look up information for personal reasons beyond the legal scope of his employment,\u201d agency spokesperson Adam Linhardt said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Linhardt said the agency fired Roman, who lasted less than a year with MCSO: He was hired in May 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI am committed to keeping this community informed of significant events that occur in this agency \u2014 good and bad,\u201d Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay said in the release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Roman, after being booked into the MCSO Key West jail facility, had his occupation listed in the agency\u2019s inmate roster as \u201cex-law enforcement.\u201d Online records show he was being held on a $50,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Further details about the allegations weren\u2019t immediately available Tuesday evening. Local 10 News has requested copies of his arrest documents.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Chris Gothner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 10, 2026 at 4:31 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandPhoto Lamar Roman (MCSO) KEY WEST, Fla. \u2014 A now-fired sheriff\u2019s deputy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-186959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186959","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=186959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}