{"id":197086,"date":"2026-03-18T23:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/197086\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T23:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:26:14","slug":"now-former-south-florida-firefighter-accused-of-stealing-fentanyl-from-ambulance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/197086\/","title":{"rendered":"Now-former South Florida firefighter accused of stealing fentanyl from ambulance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 18, 2026 at 4:28 PM<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also accused of falsifying official recordslead-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\/UDAAHU6ORZAF7NVERCTLDZYGFQ.jpg\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/>Photo Brian Burt (MCSO) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">ISLAMORADA, Fla. \u2014 Sheriff\u2019s deputies in the Florida Keys arrested a now-former firefighter and paramedic on Wednesday after accusing him of stealing fentanyl from an ambulance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/03\/18\/acusan-a-ex-bombero-del-sur-de-florida-de-robar-fentanilo-de-una-ambulancia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/03\/18\/acusan-a-ex-bombero-del-sur-de-florida-de-robar-fentanilo-de-una-ambulancia\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A news release from the Monroe County Sheriff\u2019s Office describes Brian Keith Burt as \u201cformerly employed with the Islamorada Fire Rescue Department.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Burt, 45, of Key Largo, got on investigators\u2019 radar on March 2 after his superiors notified deputies that he \u201cobtained a partially used vial of fentanyl from an ambulance after a medical call and forged another paramedic\u2019s signature in documents related to the disposal of the drug,\u201d the release states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MCSO spokesperson Adam Linhardt said that Burt\u2019s colleagues \u201cnoticed discrepancies in the documentation related to the drug\u2019s use after the call.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Burt is now facing charges of grand theft of a controlled substance and fraud.<\/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 18, 2026 at 4:28 PM He\u2019s also accused of falsifying official recordslead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandPhoto Brian Burt (MCSO) ISLAMORADA, Fla.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-197086","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\/197086","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=197086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}