Eduardo Mesa, a 16-year adept Broward Sheriff's Office deputy, was arrested on Tuesday by BSO Accessible Bribery Unit afterward a seven-month investigation.
Mesa, 40, is accused of burglary from a victim who had been hit and asleep by a train. The agent had responded to the arena to investigate the accident.
According to BSO, Mesa had taken several of the asleep victim's claimed belongings, including decree drugs and painkillers.
According to an arrest affidavit, on January 7, Mesa responded to a alarm of a banal who had been addled by a alternation in the 200 block of Dixie Highway in Pompono Beach.
During the analysis of the accident, Mesa allegedly took from the victim a suitcase, ID, clothes, and several prescriptions -- including hydrocodone and Klonopin.
A anniversary afterwards the accident, a BSO assassination detective noticed that hydrocodone and Klonopin were not listed on Mesa's antecedent report.
The assassination detective remembered accurately spotting a canteen of hyrdocodone labeled with the victim's name at the arena of the accident.
Mesa claimed he threw abroad the victim's accouterments but accepted to not accepting befuddled abroad the drugs.
BSO's accessible bribery detectives acquired a chase accreditation for Mesa's convoying car and begin a canteen labeled with the alternation blow victim's name abounding with hydrocodone. The chase additionally baldheaded 26 Alpazolam pills. The Klonopin, however, was never found.
According to BSO, board abstinent the hydrocodone at 19 grams, which, by Florida law, amounts to trafficking weight. And back Mesa was armed back he took the drugs from the scene, that amounts to an armed trafficking charge.
On Tuesday, Mesa appear to BSO's Department of Professional Standards and was taken into aegis after incident. He now faces one calculation anniversary of armed trafficking in hydrocodone, control of Alprazolam, admirable annexation of a controlled substance, analytical with evidence, and official misconduct/falsifying accessible or cloister records.
Mesa has been with BSO back 1998. He is abeyant after pay and is actuality captivated after band at BSO's Main Jail.
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