{"id":223345,"date":"2026-04-08T12:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/223345\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T12:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:36:10","slug":"hillsborough-county-deputy-arrested-after-domestic-violence-investigation-hcso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/223345\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillsborough County deputy arrested after domestic violence investigation: HCSO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; A deputy with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Hillsborough County<\/a> Sheriff\u2019s Office has been arrested following a domestic violence investigation.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">According to the sheriff\u2019s office, Deputy Justin Thornsberry, 37, was arrested on Tuesday, April 7. Deputy Thornsberry is assigned to the Department of Patrol Services.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Detectives started an investigation on April 4, after they received reports of misconduct.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Detectives say the investigation stemmed from a personal relationship dispute, where they found a tracking device placed on a vehicle without the consent of the driver.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Thornsberry was arrested and charged with the following:<\/p>\n<p> Unlawful use of a two-way communication deviceInstallation or use of tracking devices or applicationsStalking <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Deputy Thornsberry has been employed with HCSO for seven years. He has been suspended without pay, pending the outcome of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">This still remains an active investigation, and HCSO will bring updates when they become available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written using information from the Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/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 deputy with the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office has been arrested following a domestic violence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113345,"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-223345","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\/223345","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=223345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}