By Jessica Vander Velde, Times Staff Writer
Monday, January 3, 2011
Scott Guffey will receive a monthly pension of $4,645.
TAMPA — For 24 years, Scott Guffey served as a cop in Tampa. On patrol, he reunited a mother with her baby. As a robbery detective, he earned praise for good arrests. Glowing remarks fill his annual reviews.
It all fell apart when internal investigators caught the Tampa police corporal having sex in the back seat of his unmarked car during his shift.
"He was immediately relieved of duty," Chief Jane Castor said at a Monday news conference. "This kind of behavior is not tolerated in our organization."
Guffey, 46, is married, but the woman in the car, in her mid 20s, was not his wife of 15 years, Castor said.
He resigned in lieu of being fired. He will receive a pension of $4,645 a month.
The department ...