By Stephen Thompson | Tribune Staff
LARGO - After U.S. Army Reserve Sgt. James Bonanno was put in charge of two gun trucks at Camp Victory in Baghdad, Iraq, he started chewing tobacco to relieve stress over his new job.
At the time, it didn't occur to Bonanno he was violating a policy put in place by his stateside employer, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, which reprimanded him for it. Bonanno is a detention deputy at the county jail, which is overseen by Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, and Gualtieri's employees are prohibited from using tobacco products.
After internal affairs investigators at the sheriff's office got wind of Bonanno's tobacco use, they launched an investigation. Bonanno was frank and apologetic about the transgression and received a written reprimand, according to a 79-page internal affairs case file made public last week.
"I was dealing with what I had to deal with over there," he explained during a transcribed interview with internal affairs investigators.
Bonanno declined to be interviewed for this story.
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