Gregory Tony

Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony has fired a Department of Detention colonel and lieutenant colonel after an inmate gave birth in jail last month. Tony announced the terminations of Colonel Gary Palmer and Lieutenant Colonel Angela Neely Thursday for “command level failures,” the department said in a news release. The firings follow an administrative review of a late September incident in…

Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony held a press conference Friday to address his firing of two BSO officials.

Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony has fired a Department of Detention colonel and lieutenant colonel after an inmate gave birth in jail last month.

The Broward Sheriff’s Office is forming a Social Justice Task Force to work on community challenges in the county. Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony announced the creation of the task force at a news conference Thursday. He said the task force is about building trust in the community. “We work for the people and in order for us to be...

Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony narrowly defeated the man he replaced in Tuesday’s Democratic primary for the county’s top cop position. With 37.31% of the vote, Tony claimed victory over former sheriff Scott Israel, who had received 35.31% of the vote with 576 of 577 precincts reporting. “I am deeply honored that Democratic voters have chosen me to lead the Broward…

A consultant has been ousted from the former Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel’s campaign to retake his post.

A campaign consultant is on the way out of former BSO Sheriff Scott Israel campaign for his old job. NBC 6’s Phil Prazan reports this comes after he posted a video online using racist language.

The BSO union penned a letter to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis asking him to remove Sheriff Gregory Tony from his post. NBC 6’s Jamie Guirola reports.

Thursday morning saw a different kind of protest than ones in recent days as supporters of a Broward Sheriff’s Office deputy reprimanded over a social media post arrived at the doorsteps of the department’s headquarters – with some calling for the current sheriff to lose his job. The rally was organized calling for the reinstatement of Deputy Ron Thurston,...

NBC 6’s Julia Bagg has more as supporters say they think the veteran officers shouldn’t be in trouble for what he said.

Sheriff Gregory Tony’s claims that opponents are trying to paint him as a former black hoodlum with a gun are rejected by an opponent who says he also emerged from a rough neighborhood — but did not lie on his police job application.

NBC 6’s Tony Pipitone talked to Al Pollock, who is running against Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony for his role.

Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony, who failed to reveal his arrest on murder charges as a juvenile when he applied for his only Florida law enforcement job, also misrepresented his use of the hallucinogen LSD on that application.

Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony is facing more controversy after the Sun Sentinel reported he misrepresented his use of the drug LSD on a police job application. NBC 6’s Tony Pipitone reports.

When Gregory Tony applied to be a cop in 2005, he was asked in his application if he had ever been detained, arrested or charged, even as a juvenile. No, no and no, he answered on the application. But, a 1993 Philadelphia police homicide report naming him as the suspect in the shooting death of an 18-year-old man he was…

Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony is now the subject of preliminary investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The agency earlier this week started looking into whether Tony committed a crime by swearing on an affidavit that he never had a criminal record sealed or expunged. In fact, his juvenile record was sealed or expunged, he now says, because he…

The FDLE earlier this week started looking into whether Sheriff Gregory Tony committed a crime by swearing on an affidavit that he never had a criminal record sealed or expunged. NBC 6’s Jamie Guirola reports.

State law enforcement officials will review a complaint against a Florida sheriff appointed by the governor after the 2018 Parkland high school massacre

Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed Gregory Tony sheriff in the state’s second-largest county without knowing Tony shot a man to death in self defense when he was 14.