WOW...Beasley did not last long

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I guess banging your admin assistant is not good at LCSO:

https://www.wctv.tv/content/news/LCS...512536861.html

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Wasn't Beasley a JP protege when he was at FDLE? It was before he was hired for the DOC IG job that he was totally unqualified for. What a pos.

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He was a tucker boy! Like Cindi Sanz

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JP and JB = Frick and Frack as they used to be called.

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Hey Beasley, Karma's a *****, isn't she?

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Leon County Detention Chief Jeff Beasley, a member of the Sheriff's executive command, resigned Wednesday after an internal investigation found he had an inappropriate relationship with a former assistant and spouse of an LCSO detective.

“Although Chief Beasley accomplished several important initiatives during his tenure with LCSO, we have policies and procedures that must be followed," Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil said in a news release announcing Beasley's resignation. "Leadership is expected to set an example for others and everyone is held accountable for their actions."

McNeil didn't return a call seeking additional comment.

Beasley was one of several people McNeil hired when he became sheriff three years ago. He initially hired him as chief of Inspections but quietly moved him over to chief of Detention and Judicial Services a year ago.

His announced appointment stirred up controversy because of his alleged role in covering up several cases of inmate abuse and deaths, including the tear-gassing of an inmate at Franklin Correctional Institution.

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Jeff Beasley
Jeff Beasley (Photo: LCSO)

The detective, a 15-year-member of LCSO, filed a complaint with Internal Affairs on June 11, and presented a video he had stored on his mobile phone, taken by a private investigator he had hired to follow his wife, showing his wife in Beasley's garage.

The detective is not being named by the Tallahassee Democrat because it would identify his wife, who said she was a victim of domestic abuse.

In a letter to Internal Affairs, the detective said, "proof exists that demonstrates Chief Beasley lacks the moral character and personal and professional integrity required of a member of the executive command staff, much less a sworn member, of the LCSO."

The result of "the inappropriate relationship," according to the deputy, was that "a family has now been irreparably broken and direct measurable financial damages have been incurred by an innocent husband, father and LCSO deputy."


Both Beasley and detective's wife denied having a sexual relationship.

In his internal affairs investigation interview, Beasley alleged the detective had a drinking problem, was verbally and emotionally abusive to his spouse and was stalking her so Beasley invited her to "shelter herself at his resident (sic) for 3 or 4 nights to alleviate her fear."

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Members of the agency are considered first reporters and have an obligation to report any incidents of alleged alcohol or spousal abuse. Beasley didn't document the criminal allegations he made about the detective's stalking and harassment.

The investigative report stopped short of calling it an inappropriate interpersonal relationship with an agency member he directly supervised. Investigators said evidence of such a relationship couldn't be established.

But Beasley's relationship, which the detective said began last August, was determined to be a gross violation of the Canon of Ethics and was unbecoming of an officer, a redacted 47-page internal affairs report released Wednesday afternoon said.

Investigators said the fact that the wife of a Leon County Sheriff's Office member spent several nights at Beasley's home was likely to "severely affect the discipline, good order or reputation of the agency, or that may compromise the integrity of the member, to include violating agency written directives."

The investigative report also found that Beasley willfully neglected his duties by not reporting allegations of alcohol abuse, domestic disturbances and stalking made by both Beasley and the wife of the detective, violating a general order requiring him to recommend the detective to the LCSO Employee Assistance Program.

As a sworn officer, Beasley had an obligation to have an offense or incident report written up to document the allegations the woman had made against her husband.

The detective said his wife was working as an administrative assistant to the chief of Detention and Judicial Services at the time Beasley was transferred to that department.

He told investigators she'd come home from work and talk about "Beasley this, Beasley that," and mentioned something about going to take Beasley to get a tattoo on their lunch hour. The detective said he thought that was inappropriate and she dropped it.

In August, the detective noticed "what can only be described as an inordinate amount of phone calls and text messages" between his wife's personal phone and Beasley's personal phone.

Investigators reviewed Verizon phone records and found 101 calls between the two of them between August 10 and September 3.

The detective wanted to report the matter to the sheriff, but his wife convinced him not to. In November, she moved her cell phone off the family plan, changed her number and got her own account with Sprint that he couldn't access.

In January, she transferred from the Department of Detention and Judicial Services to Human Resources. On April 28, she left the family home. The detective's spouse "abruptly resigned from the Sheriff's office" on May 24.

On June 5, the detective hired a private investigator to "determine whether (his wife) was in fact being unfaithful." The investigator saw her pulling out of Beasley's garage at around 7:30 a.m. on June 7.

Sheriff's investigators reviewed the surveillance report provided by the private investigator hired by the detective. According to interviews with one coworker, the spouse reported she and the detective were having marital problems but she never mentioned anything about an affair with Beasley.

The coworker said she noticed the detective's wife had stopped wearing her wedding ring and there were rumors about the two of them going around the office, several people told investigators.

When asked about her phone calls with Beasley, the detective's wife said she and her husband were in an "exceptional bad spot" and she would come into work crying and Beasley wanted to know why.

"And I felt comfortable discussing my personal issues with the Chief, mainly because he has a lot more life experience than I do. Recently gone through a divorce," she said, adding that she felt he understood what she was going through.

She also said her husband had an alcohol problem, an issue that existed before their first baby was born. She added that he was also verbally and mentally abusive.

She also said she never met with Beasley outside of work, other than dog-sitting for him and dropping off paperwork that he left at his office. "But, no, we don't just meet up. He's paid me for my assistance, and ... You know."

Three years ago, Beasley was accused of thwarting investigations into the treatment and deaths of several inmates while he was the Florida Department of Corrections’ inspector general. Several of his former inspectors filed a lawsuit saying Beasley had retaliated against them for exposing cover-ups of inmate deaths and beatings.

The state paid $800,000 to settle that lawsuit — $320,000 from FDC and $480,000 from the Division of Risk Management.

A federal lawsuit was brought on behalf of the teenage daughter of Randall Jordan-Aparo, who died after he was tear-gassed by corrections officers at Franklin Correctional Institution in 2010 after he requested medical attention. The court approved a wrongful death settlement in April with the FDC for $850,000.

Back in December 2016 when he announced he was hiring Beasley, McNeil said he'd been talking to Beasley during the campaign and felt he knew all about him and his background.

Beasley was an investigator for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement at the same time McNeil was FDC secretary. They didn’t work with each other, but McNeil said he knew Beasley “by reputation and his work dealing with criminal intelligence.”

Beasley went to work for the FDC in October 2011; he and McNeil never overlapped at the FDC.

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He's a Cookie Monster.