Four Probation Officials Fired After Deltona Slayings

First Coast News ^ | 8/9/2004 | AP edited by Mike McCormick

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) --

Florida prison officials fired a probation officer and three supervisors today accused of failing to keep custody of the lead figure in the beating and stabbing murders of six people in Deltona last week.

Corrections Secretary James Crosby said the probation officials missed two key opportunities to put Troy Victorino in jail. One of those times was Thursday before the killings that night.

Victorino was arrested July 29 on a battery charge. Officials say that a day later police notified probation officers who were supposed to send a report to a judge requesting an arrest warrant within 48 hours. The paperwork wasn't sent until Friday.

The prisons chief also says Victorino visited his probation office in DeLand less than a day before the killings. Crosby says he doesn't know what happened during that visit and he has no answer for why Victorino slipped through the cracks.

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Why isn't there a check/balance to keep this from happening. Here I've been thinking it was the judge's oversight, which still could be true cause you have to appear before a judge before you can get ooj. I'm glad the state has followed up and fired those who didn't do their job.

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Pinging you to update on xbox slayings, probation officers fired today.

[dwilli]

When he fired the four probation officers, he also set the up for a civil suit. Call little Jonnie Edwards.

[Americanwolf]

also a nice conversation about same subject here.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1188225/posts

[eno_]

I'm freakin' amazed.

A public employee - a LEO (of sorts) - gets FIRED, PROMPTLY, for screwing up.

I hope Jeb Bush appointed the guy who did the firing.

[FITZ]

I guess they well knew this guy was quite dangerous. This is why we need the death penalty for these types, there is always a way that they get let out or not watched closely.