A Florida Keys deputy fired and arrested this week is accused by investigators of illegally searching sheriff\u2019s office databases for information on an actress he met while moonlighting as security on the set of \u201cBad Monkey\u201d and then pulling her over to flirt with her, according to his arrest report.<\/p>\n
Internal affairs detectives also say the deputy\u2019s in-car video shows him nearly causing a head-on collision when he drove into oncoming traffic on U.S. 1 so he could catch up to her vehicle last month.<\/p>\n
The Monroe County Sheriff\u2019s Office fired Lamar Eliseo Roman, 28, on Tuesday and also arrested him on a felony charge of misuse of law-enforcement computers, computer networks and electronic devices. He was released Wednesday. Information on his bond was not immediately available.<\/p>\n
Roman joined the sheriff\u2019s office in May 2025, and his annual salary until he was fired was $74,474. He could not be reached for comments, and information on his legal representation was not immediately available<\/p>\n
According to his arrest report, Roman was working a security detail on Feb. 3 on the set of \u201cBad Monkey,\u201d an Apple TV show that stars Vince Vaughn and is filming its second season in the Keys. Roman saw the woman, whom the Herald is not naming because she is a possible victim of stalking, get off a bus for extras on Long Beach Road in Big Pine Key in the Lower Keys and began whistling at her, the report states.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old woman told detectives that Roman approached her several times that day, to the point where other extras noticed and tried to pull her away from him, according to the report. She told him she had a boyfriend. Roman joked with her that he would find her on the road and pull her over, the report states.<\/p>\n
Detectives say Roman immediately started looking for information about the woman using several sheriff\u2019s office databases. He even added her car\u2019s information into a \u201chotlist\u201d system that would alert him whenever she drove past an electronic license plate reader, according to the report.<\/p>\n
Detectives pouring through records of Roman accessing the systems to search for information about the woman found he did so several times, sometimes several times a day, from the day he met her through Feb. 19. That\u2019s the day he pulled her over, according to the report.<\/p>\n
Detectives watched Roman\u2019s patrol-car camera and observed that the pursuit that preceded the traffic stop, which he never logged as is required, was extremely dangerous. He began following her in the Lower Keys, where the speed limit on U.S. 1 ranges between 45 and 55 mph.<\/p>\n
There were several vehicles in between Roman\u2019s patrol car and the woman\u2019s car, including two large dump trucks, according to the report. Camera footage showed Roman speeding up to 70 mph and passing each truck in a no-passing zone, the report states.<\/p>\n
Roman again passed more vehicles, driving into oncoming traffic, forcing the driver of a truck heading toward him to veer off the road, detectives wrote in the report. Even during legitimate pursuits, the sheriff\u2019s office has a strict policy when deputies are allowed to exceed the speed limit and chase drivers.<\/p>\n
He then got behind the woman\u2019s car with his emergency roof lights flashing and pulled her over in the turning lane of the highway at mile marker 10, the report states. The in-car camera showed him approach her car from the passenger\u2019s side and talk to her, according to the report.<\/p>\n
The woman told investigators that when she rolled down the window, Roman said, \u201cI told you I\u2019d find you and pull you over,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n
He also told her, \u201cI was hoping your boyfriend was in the car so I can pull him out and give him a hard time,\u201d the woman told detectives, according to the report.<\/p>\n
When questioned by detectives, Roman acknowledged that he used the sheriff\u2019s office\u2019s databases to search for information about the woman. He said soon after meeting her, he sent her a direct message on Instagram, but she did not respond, according to the report.<\/p>\n
Regarding the traffic stop, Roman told detectives he knew he erred in judgment as soon as he began talking to the woman. He said he had \u201ca tough month,\u201d and \u201cI saw a shiny thing,\u201d referring to the woman.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd that\u2019s why I just like I stopped right after and nothing else,\u201d Roman said, according to the report.<\/p>\n
When the detective asked Roman if he pursued the woman that day \u201cjust to say hey,\u201d he responded, \u201cYeah, I know it\u2019s stupid,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Florida Keys deputy fired and arrested this week is accused by investigators of illegally searching sheriff\u2019s office…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,2472,29,88036,38258,88037],"class_list":["post-187638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-keys","tag-florida-news","tag-lamar-eliseo-roman","tag-oncoming-traffic","tag-sheriffs-office-databases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187638","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=187638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}