Another Corrupt Fl Deputy Lets Drug Offender go After BJ
Broward Sheriff's Office arrested its own Deputy Ted Arboleda Monday after a year-long probe into corruption allegations. Investigators said the three-year force veteran failed to arrest a woman who was driving without a license and possessed marijuana after she offered him oral sex.
A Florida deputy let a suspected drug offender walk away scot-free — but only after she gave him oral sex, officials said.
Broward Sheriff's Office arrested its own Deputy Ted Arboleda Monday for allegedly accepting sexual favors from a would-be arrestee. The three-year force veteran faces felony charges for unlawful compensation or reward for official behavior, Florida's Local 10 reported.
The arrest comes after a year-long investigation into Arboleda. He was placed on administrative leave in August, deputies said.
Investigators said the 32-year-old deputy pulled into a Dania Beach gas station on July 13, 2013, and started chatting with another customer.
While talking to the woman, he learned she had marijuana and an unlabeled bottle of prescription pills on her. She also didn't have a driver's license on her, even though she drove to the station.
LOCAL10.COMOfficials said Arboleda met a woman at a gas station last July when he learned she was carrying drugs and didn’t have a driver’s license.
The woman begged Arboleda not to arrest her: she was already on prohibition, she said. She offered him money — which the deputy declined.
Instead, he gave her back the drugs and offered to drive her home. When the two got back to her home, she offered him oral sex, investigators said.
Arboleda accepted.
Afterward Arboleda said he "could not believe he agreed to the sex act and told the victim not to tell anyone," Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel told WSVN.
Arboleda left without arresting the woman.
But police later got a call reporting the incident — the woman's boyfriend told police he believed his girlfriend had inappropriate contact with a deputy.
The suspended cop was released from jail Monday night on bond, shortly after he turned himself in, police said.
"It's discouraging and it's demoralizing to the 99.9% of the men and women that work so hard and so diligently," Israel said.
BY MEG WAGNER
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
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