The ex-wife of a local attorney is suing her former husband
and a Broward Sheriff's detective over what she says was her wrongful arrest
following a June 2009 traffic stop. Marcy Romeo alleges Detective Jeff Poole
arrested her for possessing her teenage son's medications and that her
ex-husband, Douglas Bates, lied to help Poole justify taking her to jail. The
federal lawsuit filed Thursday accuses Bates of using her arrest to gain the
upper hand when it came to obtaining custody of their son.
The federal lawsuit filed Thursday accuses Bates of using
her arrest to gain the upper hand when it came to obtaining custody of their
son.
Poole made news in January when one of newly elected Sheriff
Scott Israel's first acts in office was to suspend the detective with pay. At
the time, Israel said an outside agency was investigating Poole, but declined
to elaborate.