{"id":381783,"date":"2026-08-26T17:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/381783\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T17:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:20:18","slug":"st-petersburg-police-officer-fired-after-domestic-battery-arrest-sppd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/381783\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg police officer fired after domestic battery arrest: SPPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. \u2014 A St. Petersburg Police Officer was terminated on Tuesday after he was arrested in February for domestic battery against his wife. <\/p>\n<p>Curtis Wright was fired on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He was sworn as a St. Petersburg Police Department officer in April of 2010. <\/p>\n<p>He was assigned to the Uniform Patrol Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>On Feb. 15, Pinellas County Sheriff&#8217;s Office deputies arrested Wright for domestic battery. <\/p>\n<p>He was on parental leave at the time and was placed on administrative leave until his criminal court proceedings and Office of Professional Standards investigations concluded.<\/p>\n<p>On June 25, the State Attorney&#8217;s Office filed a No Information letter. Meaning, the state decided not to prosecute.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Anthony Holloway convened a Command Review Board to review allegations that Officer Curtis Wright committed a domestic battery against his wife.<\/p>\n<p>The board reviewed his case and terminated Wright for violating the following city of St. Petersburg Rules and Regulations of Personnel Management System:<\/p>\n<p>Unlawful or improper conduct either on or off the job, which an employee knows or reasonably should know could negatively affect the employee&#8217;s relationship to the job, fellow workers, reputation, or goodwill in the community.Conviction or guilt of a felony or a misdemeanor of the first or second degree as defined by Florida Statutes, of federal criminal law, or any violation of a city rule, policy and\/or ordinance involving moral turpitude, irrespective of the initiation or result of a criminal proceeding, while either on or off the job.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/KATIE.LAGRONE.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Challenges over Florida&#8217;s school bus and school speed zone camera face setbacks as legal battles continue<\/p>\n<p>Cameras catching drivers who illegally pass stopped school buses or speed through school zones are generating millions of citations across Florida \u2014 and a growing wave of legal challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Legal challenges over school bus and school speed zone cameras hit roadblocks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. \u2014 A St. Petersburg Police Officer was terminated on Tuesday after he was arrested in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[5686,16903,18066,1224,596,107032,202,204,203,199,201,200,5910,3670,208],"class_list":["post-381783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-battery","tag-domestic","tag-fired","tag-officer","tag-pinellas-county","tag-pinellas-news","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381783","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=381783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}