{"id":394051,"date":"2026-09-08T21:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T21:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/394051\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T21:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T21:12:08","slug":"former-fort-pierce-officer-arrested-over-alleged-misuse-of-police-databases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/394051\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Fort Pierce officer arrested over alleged misuse of police databases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityoffortpierce.com\/1186\/Police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fort Pierce Police Department<\/a> announced the arrest of a former officer accused of misusing police database systems.<\/p>\n<p>Police Chief <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/topic\/David%20M.%20Smith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">David Smith<\/a> is scheduled to hold a press conference on Tuesday at 4 p.m. at the department&#8217;s main station.<\/p>\n<p>Smith is expected to provide additional information about the investigation and circumstances surrounding the former officer&#8217;s arrest.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/5-people-killed-when-plane-struck-van-at-miami-airport-identified-miami-international-airport-miami-airport-plane-crash-aircraft-crash-airport-crash-miami-dade-miami-dade-sheriffs-office-mdso-ntsb-crash-investigation-deadly-crash-fatal-crash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Victims identified after Amazon plane crash kills 5, injures 5, at Miami airport<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The chief will also discuss the department&#8217;s commitment to accountability, integrity, and the appropriate use of law enforcement resources.<\/p>\n<p>CBS 12 News will update this story following the press conference.<\/p>\n<p>The press conference will be streamed live on <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBS12.com\/watch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 The Fort Pierce Police Department announced the arrest of a former officer accused&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-394051","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\/394051","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=394051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}