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Deputy found guilty in post-Ivan incident
By TIMES STAFF WRITER
Published February 9, 2007
A federal jury on Thursday found Pinellas County sheriff's deputy Richard G. Farnham guilty of a misdemeanor charge of violating a victim's civil rights without bodily injury. Farnham, 34, had faced a more serious felony civil rights charge for the incident that occurred after he traveled to the Panhandle to help out after Hurricane Ivan in 2004. Farnham was part of a unit of Pinellas deputies sent to help bolster law enforcement in Ivan's aftermath. Farnham was with a deputy from Santa Rosa County when two men fired guns at them, according to a news release from the Sheriff's Office. Farnham was accused of illegally kicking and using a Taser on the suspect during the arrest. Farnham was indicted in November under a civil rights law that has been used only a handful of times against law officers in Florida in recent years. Farnham will remain free pending his sentencing April 24. He will remain on administrative leave, the Sheriff's Office said.
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