Mark Romano, director of investigations and homeland security for the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, announces the arrest of an employee. | News4Jax
Published on April 2, 2025 at 11:49 am
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The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office arrested an officer accused of stealing a woman’s handbag and discarding it behind a Mandarin apartment complex.
A woman whom Officer Shane Metz arrested in December reported March 20 that she didn’t get her handbag back when she was released, the Sheriff’s Office said.
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Detectives discovered that Metz didn’t submit the woman’s handbag as personal property when she was booked into the jail. He searched the woman’s bag and discarded it in a dumpster at a Mandarin apartment complex.
On March 27, Metz was arrested on a charge of petty theft and immediately resigned.
Metz was employed with the agency for two years and seven months.
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This is the fourth arrest of a Sheriff’s Office employee in 2025.
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