Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) arrested<\/a> one of its deputies.<\/p>\nHCSO said that Justin Thornsberry, 37, a deputy working in the Department of Patrol Services, was placed under arrest on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Thornsberry is now facing multiple domestic violence charges, including stalking, installation or use of tracking devices and unlawful use of a two-way communication device, deputies said.<\/p>\n
According to the sheriff’s office, an investigation began on April 4 when deputies received reports of misconduct.<\/p>\n
Investigators concluded that the incident stemmed from a personal relationship dispute, and detectives later found the tracking device on a vehicle, which they say was placed without consent.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis case involves a serious abuse of personal privacy and authority,\u201d Sheriff Chad Chronister said. \u201cIllegally placing a tracking device on a vehicle is a criminal act. Anyone who chooses to engage in this kind of behavior will face the consequences.”<\/p>\n
“We hold our deputies to a higher standard, and when that standard is violated, we take action,\u201d Chronister added.<\/p>\n
Thornsberry has been working at the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office for seven years, deputies added. He was suspended without pay, pending the outcome of a criminal and administrative investigation.<\/p>\n
The investigation is still ongoing.<\/p>\n
Last month, three deputies were also arrested<\/a> in separate cases related to domestic violence, including a detention deputy cadet and two patrol deputies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A misconduct investigation led to domestic violence charges, as the sheriff’s office says the deputy is also accused…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-222953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222953","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=222953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}