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Ex-Deputy In Wheelchair Case Charged With Disabled Abuse

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Published: April 25, 2008

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TAMPA - Prosecutors filed a formal charge today against a former Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office detention deputy seen on videotape dumping a quadriplegic from a wheelchair as he is being processed into Orient Road Jail on Jan. 29.

Charlette Marshall-Jones, a 22-year veteran of the sheriff's office, has been charged with abusing the disabled.

It is a third-degree felony and punishable by up to five years in prison.

Marshall-Jones, 44, turned herself in at Orient Road Jail at 5 a.m. Feb. 16. She was booked, processed and released by 6:18 a.m. after posting $3,500 bail, Hillsborough sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter said.

Sheriff David Gee announced on the evening of Feb. 15 that a warrant had been issued for her arrest.

The quadriplegic, Brian Sterner, 32, was arrested by Tampa police on Jan. 29 at his home in Riverview and taken to Orient Road Jail. He posted bail and was freed Feb. 3.

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