{"id":205615,"date":"2026-03-25T15:46:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/205615\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T15:46:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:46:06","slug":"hillsborough-county-deputy-suspended-after-domestic-related-altercation-sends-1-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/205615\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillsborough County deputy suspended after domestic-related altercation sends 1 to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Hillsborough County<\/a> deputy is facing domestic battery charges and has been suspended from the sheriff\u2019s office with pay.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Dayton Thomas, 35, was involved in a domestic-related altercation shortly after 11:40 p.m. on Tuesday in Port Richey.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Investigators said the victim was injured during the incident and was taken to an area hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Thomas was arrested by the Pasco County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Thomas was charged with domestic aggravated battery involving serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Thomas has been employed with HCSO for 10 years. He has been suspended without pay pending the outcome of the criminal and administrative investigation.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">By the numbers:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Thomas is the third HCSO employee in the past three days to be arrested.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">On Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/hillsborough-county-detention-deputy-cadet-accused-domestic-violence-no-one-is-above-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office Detention Deputy Cadet Ivan Feliciano Heredia was arrested in Pasco County for domestic violence battery.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/hillsborough-county-deputy-arrested-domestic-violence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">St. Pete police arrested 45-year-old Hillsborough County Deputy Brian Juliano on multiple charges including armed kidnapping, aggravated assault, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and tampering with a witness.<\/a><\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">&#8220;This type of behavior is unacceptable and will not be tolerated under any circumstances,&#8221; said Sheriff Chad Chronister. &#8220;No one is above the law, and when a member of this Sheriff&#8217;s Office violates it, they will be held fully accountable. Our community deserves better, and we will not compromise the standards we are sworn to uphold.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written with information from several press releases from the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office, as well as previous FOX 13 News reports.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hillsborough County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; A Hillsborough County deputy is facing domestic battery charges and has been suspended from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[630,47,629,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-205615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-hillsborough","tag-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205615","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=205615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}