Tampa Escorts: Slain Tampa police officer David Curtis recalled as devoted family man and …
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Curtis worked at a grocery store, a hardware store, a department store. Detailed BMWs at a car wash, waited tables, became a personal trainer at a gym. “I have learned something special at every job,” he wrote in 2002, when he applied to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. “I learned to calm everyone down first, not beat everyone up. I survived three Mardi Gras with no incidents.”
Howard Lindsey, 43, worked with Curtis as a Hillsborough County detention deputy. Curtis mostly worked intake, Lindsey said, taking fingerprints and booking photos. “He was always respectful to everyone, even the inmates,” Lindsey said. But he didn’t like being stuck in the jail, Lindsey said. He longed to be out patrolling the streets.
In the fall of 2006, he was hired by the Tampa Police Department. “I always looked forward to working with him,” said officer Jeremy Larson. “He always told these great stories about things he did with his boys.”
On the job, he worked the Super Bowl in 2009, helped with an FBI sting on juvenile prostitutes and recovered $15,000 in stolen jewelry.
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