One had marijuana. Another had more than three times the legal limit of alcohol in his system when he was at the wheel of a car. A third filed a bogus insurance claim.
Everyday criminal suspects arrested by the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office?
No, try sheriff's employees.
The sheriff's office this morning released 11 memoranda regarding employees who had recently been fired or suspended.
Here are a few of the cases:
Child protection investigator Christine Martin was terminated Friday after she was accused of filing a fraudulent insurance claim, netting roughly $7,000, one memorandum says. She was charged with filing a fraudulent insurance claim and entered into a pre-trial intervention program.
Deputy James Campbell was suspended for 40 hours following a May 30 charge of drunken driving. According to a sheriff's memorandum, breath tests put his blood-alcohol levels at .309 and .307 - more than three times .08, the threshold at which a driver in Florida is presumed intoxicated. Campbell's case is still winding through the judicial system.
Michael Celi, a registered nurse at the Pinellas County Jail, was suspended for 56 hours after deputies got a tip he had marijuana at his home while he was off duty. He eventually pleaded no contest to marijuana possession and possession of drug paraphernalia.
John Hubbard was busted down from sergeant to deputy -- and was suspended for 15 days - after an investigation revealed that, for nearly two years, he had made racist, sexist, and otherwise disparaging remarks about co-workers, ranging from subordinates to supervisors.
Deputy Martha Castro was suspended for eight hours after her gun accidentally went off while she was cleaning it July 3.
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