Tampa Police Department Officer arrested for soliciting prostitute

(Tampa PD Chief O’Connor, Image credit: YouTube)

On July 20, police in Tampa, Florida, reported having to take one of their own into custody. On Wednesday, Officer Stanley Clerveaux, 25, was arrested by Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office on the charge of Solicitation of Prostitution.

“To say this is disappointing is an understatement”, said Chief O’Connor. “We saw potential when we selected him as a police recruit scholarship recipient in October 2020; and again, when he was sworn in as an officer in May 2021. I don’t want this information to diminish the positive work being done by the Tampa Police Department. I want the community we serve to know that we hold ourselves to the high level of integrity they should expect from their public servants”.

Clerveaux has been relieved of duty pending the completion of an internal investigation.

According to The Tampa Bay Times, Clerveaux was booked into a Hillsborough County jail Wednesday morning and later released on a $500 bond. He faces a misdemeanor charge of soliciting another to commit prostitution.