We now know why Charlotte County Sheriff’s deputy Eric Ireland was fired and arrested for official misconduct and giving false testimony. It involves his alleged pursuit of women……
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Sheriff Bill Prummell says an investigation found Ireland had used his position to access law enbforcement databases to follow various women in the county. Prummell says his office was notified that Ireland had harassed a woman, and they got a complaint from another woman alledging the former deputy planted drugs in her husband’s car. NBC2 reports the husband was later busted by a Fort Myers detective who’d gotten a tip that someone was moving drugs. Prummel says Ireland was the tipster. The department’s investigating the drug planting allegation. In close to three years as a deputy, Ireland was the subject of six internal affairs investigations, and in the wrong in three.