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I'm your host, retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD. Beautiful Sunday morning.

I can believe it's the 28th of July. A case, of course, out of Osceola County. And remember this man here,

Sheriff from Osceola County, Lopez, Marcus Lopez. And the Osceola County, Sheriff Lopez, Marcos Lopez.

And the Osceola sheriff is accused of sharing

Madeline Soto's crime scene photo.

And his response, I think, was what more or less got him into trouble.

He was accused of making conflicting statements after the state attorney threatened

to place him on a database dedicated to law enforcement officers accused of misconduct.

The Osceola County Sheriff is trying to clear what he says is a misinterpretation

of a quote surrounding a controversial crime scene photo posted on social media.

Court records show that Sheriff Marcos Lopez was cited for disclosing a photograph that depicted the killing of 13-year-old Madeline Soto.

Soto's body was found in the wooded area near St. Cloud on March 1st,

four days after she failed to show up at school and was reported missing.

The Osceola County Sheriff's Office previously acknowledged that an investigated photo had been

accidentally posted on Lopez's Instagram account hours after the teen's body was located.

That doesn't sound like it could really be an accident.

In a letter sent from a state attorney Andrew Bain to Lopez on July 8th,

Bain points out that Lopez told Kissimmee police chief that the photo was published by mistake

and made a public apology.

However, the state attorney's officers, there were conflicting remarks Lopez made during a radio interview where he claimed the picture didn't actually show the body.

According to the letter Lopez told WDBO, as to the photo, there was an apology issued, but it wasn't actually

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