BSO fires ex-captain after demotion over response before 3 murders

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Jemeriah Cooper’s decades of acquisition successful instrumentality enforcement see “overseeing processes for injunctions for extortion against violence,” and it was a home unit triple execution that ended his vocation with the Broward Sheriff’s Office.

After an investigation, Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony attributed Cooper’s demotion to a “shortcoming of performance” earlier Nathan Gingles was arrested for 3 murders connected Feb. 16 successful Tamarac.

According to Veda Coleman-Wright, a BSO spokeswoman, Cooper, a erstwhile captain, was terminated.

“The crushed fixed connected the termination signifier is nonaccomplishment to conscionable probationary standards,” Coleman-Wright wrote connected Tuesday.

Gingles, a subject veteran, was arrested for sidesplitting his 34-year-old estranged wife, Mary Gingles; his 64-year-old father-in-law David Ponzer; and Andrew Ferrin, a 36-year-old neighbor, and kidnapping his 4-year-old girl Seraphine.

“We had a accidental to prevention their loved one’s beingness and we failed,” Tony said adding that Nathan Gingles could person been arrested successful December and was not.

Cooper started his vocation arsenic a Florida Department of Corrections serviceman successful 2000 and helium joined BSO successful 2022 arsenic a detention deputy.

After becoming a lawman sheriff successful 2008, Cooper moved up the ranks. In 2021, helium served arsenic the Tamarac District’s enforcement serviceman and was promoted to skipper successful 2023. Tony demoted him to lawman connected Feb. 26.

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