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Hendry Sheriff s Office hired a deputy who had been fired for interfering in child custody case
Devan Patel, USA TODAY Network - Florida
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3:34 pm UTC Jan. 7, 2021
One officer fired from a previous agency and hired by Hendry County Sheriff Steve Whidden was rebuked by her former employer for attempting to influence a child custody case involving the daughter of Chief Deputy Kevin Nelson, the agency’s second-highest ranked deputy, personnel and court records show.
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A family friend of Chief Deputy Kevin Nelson was hired at the Hendry County Sheriff s Office despite being fired at the Department of Children and.
Devan Patel, Naples Daily News
Published
11:21 am UTC Feb. 6, 2021
Devan Patel, Naples Daily News
Published
11:21 am UTC Feb. 6, 2021
This story was updated on Feb. 5, 2021, to reflect that while former FDLE Commissioner Gerald Bailey’s name was on a letter stating why a Florida agency declined to punish an officer who was forced out at the Sunny Isles Police Department in 2006, the letter was sent by the then-chairman of the Probable Cause Panel of the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission.
Joseph Floyd turned Florida’s Crestview Police Department into a criminal enterprise, the judge said at his 2013 sentencing, but his willingness to break the rules didn’t start there.
Woman accused of road rage car chase from Fort Myers to LaBelle
Published: December 23, 2020 9:23 PM EST
Updated: December 24, 2020 10:24 AM EST
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A driver says a woman followed him for more than 30 miles over about 45 minutes in Southwest Florida across county lines.
Hendry County Sheriff’s Office arrested Elisia Hato, 44, for a road rage incident with another driver Wednesday.
The victim told deputies it began at the intersection with Fowler Street and Colonial Boulevard in Fort Myers and ended over in LaBelle.
According to the HCSO report, deputies say it all started because the suspect did not think the victim moved over fast enough when an ambulance passed by.