Florida sheriff’s captain fired days after weapons incident at Parkland school: report

The Broward County Sheriff’s Workplace commander in Parkland, Florida has been fired, days after loaded weapons have been discovered at a constitution faculty by a faculty useful resource officer. 

The sheriff’s workplace advised Parkland Speak that Capt. Craig Calavetta was let go Monday. Fox Information has reached out to the regulation enforcement company. 

Calavetta started his greater than 30-year profession as a Parkland public security officer and rose to the rank of Parkland Division captain. In 2021, he was chosen as district chief, Parkland’s high regulation enforcement official, in response to the report. 

A cause for the dismissal was not disclosed. 

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His departure got here 11 days after two weapons belonging to the principal of Somerset Parkland Academy have been present in a field on June 2. 

The weapons have been discovered by a Broward Sheriff’s Workplace faculty useful resource officer, who then handed the invention over to investigators. They decided that the weapons belonged to the varsity’s principal, Geyler Castro, Fox affiliate, WSVN-TV reported.

No college students got here into contact with the weapons, the sheriff’s workplace the information outlet, though mother and father weren’t notified concerning the incident till 24 hours later. 

The constitution faculty is positioned not removed from Marjory Stoneman Douglas Excessive College, the place a mass taking pictures in 2018 left 17 folks useless and injured 17 others. It’s not operated by Broward County Public Faculties.