Detective Fired After Charges of False Reports
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From Times Wire Reports
A sheriff’s detective was fired after being charged with falsifying documents in police reports.
He is the third official charged in the state attorney’s 17-month probe into allegations that Broward County sheriff’s deputies closed cases by attributing them to people who could not have committed the crimes.
Joe Isabella, 34, was fired after he told investigators he had improperly cleared cases and falsified reports. He blamed pressure from supervisors who wanted to lower crime statistics.
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