The Duval County School District says the officer was arrested late Thursday evening after an investigation by the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Duval County Public Schools announced on Friday that a former school police officer has been arrested for an alleged “romantic relationship” with a student.<\/p>\n
DCPS says that allegations of “potentially criminal behavior” regarding the officer, Alexander Capasso, had surfaced around four weeks ago.<\/p>\n
Duval County Schools Chief of Police Jackson Short is said to have asked the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office for support shortly after.<\/p>\n
Capasso, who began to work with school Police in late 2025 and was not assigned to a specific school, is said to have resigned on Monday, March 2, while under investigation. While under investigation, the district says that Capasso was “stripped of all law enforcement authority.”<\/p>\n
An arrest warrant was issued and later served Thursday evening.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile all criminal investigations involve due process, I am deeply troubled by these allegations,” Short said a statement. “The alleged behavior is not representative of the high standards of integrity required of our law enforcement officers and does not reflect our unwavering commitment to student safety and care.”<\/p>\n
Capasso was arrested on charges of an authority figure soliciting or engaging in a romantic relationship with a student, unlawful use of a two-way communication device and tampering with evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Duval County School District says the officer was arrested late Thursday evening after an investigation by the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-208935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208935","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=208935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}