{"id":393901,"date":"2026-09-08T18:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/393901\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T18:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:24:09","slug":"live-at-4-pm-former-fort-pierce-officer-accused-of-database-misuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/393901\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE AT 4 PM: Former Fort Pierce officer accused of database misuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT PIERCE, Fla. \u2014 WATCH BELOW: Police to hold news conference at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>A former Fort Pierce police officer has been arrested in connection with the alleged misuse of police database systems, the Fort Pierce Police Department announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The department has not yet released the former officer&#8217;s name, specific charges or details about how the databases were allegedly misused.<\/p>\n<p>Police Chief David Smith is expected to provide more information about the investigation and the circumstances surrounding the arrest during a news conference at 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Fort Pierce Police Department&#8217;s main station at 920 South U.S. Highway 1.<\/p>\n<p>According to the department, Smith will also discuss accountability, integrity and the appropriate use of law enforcement resources and systems.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE, Fla. \u2014 WATCH BELOW: Police to hold news conference at 4 p.m. A former Fort Pierce&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-393901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393901","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=393901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}