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Dead deputy cleared of sex claim

By "eAdvocate"

2-9-2011 Florida: DELAND -- Four days after a Volusia County sheriff's deputy shot himself dead, an internal affairs investigation concluded the groping accusations a Deltona woman made against him were unfounded. But the inquiry, finished Tuesday, did reveal that deputy Carl "Pete" Willard, 55, didn't follow department policy when he failed to call for a female deputy to search Lisa Lopez, 44, of Deltona or have another deputy present when he searched Lopez, reports revealed. Willard shot himself in the backyard of his Deltona home Friday afternoon. The death investigation is still ongoing and it is not known whether the complaint contributed to Willard's decision to kill himself, sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson said. "It appears that Deputy Willard was struggling with other issues that predated this complaint," Davidson said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on February 09, 2011 (boomark / email).