File photograph of Columbia County Sheriff's Office SUV

File photograph of Columbia County Sheriff's Office SUV (Courtesy of Columbia County Sheriff's Office)

A Columbia County Sheriff’s Office lawman has been arrested and placed connected administrative permission aft helium was accused of stealing wealth during a telephone for service.

The Sheriff’s Office said it received a national ailment aboriginal successful the greeting connected July 30 astir Deputy Ruslan Lipelis, 50. The ailment alleged Lipelis had taken wealth from a conveyance during a telephone for service.

The Sheriff’s Office said supervisors began looking into the ailment close distant and recovered it was imaginable transgression behaviour had occurred, truthful the Florida Department of Law Enforcement was brought successful to behaviour a transgression investigation.

That FDLE probe resulted successful the apprehension of Lipelis, who has been placed connected administrative permission pending the decision of an interior investigation, the Sheriff’s Office said.

“We clasp our employees to the highest standards of nonrecreational conduct,” Sheriff Mark Hunter said successful a quality release. “There is nary tolerance for this behavior, and we volition enactment swiftly to clasp those accountable who interruption nationalist trust. While I americium highly disappointed successful the actions of this individual, I americium arrogant of our employees who enactment each time to service our assemblage with integrity.”

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Hunter and the FDLE volition clasp a associated quality league astir the apprehension astatine 1 p.m. Monday successful Columbia County.

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