Public Information Office

Public Information Office (PIO)

The Public Information Office strives to be responsive and professional in its activities. We act in full compliance with the Florida Public Records Law and in the best interests of the agency, the news media, and the people of Lee County. Routine media inquiries and records requests are handled as expeditiously as possible during normal business hours.

This office handles all media inquiries, issues news releases, responds to public records by members of the media, coordinates agency social media, special projects and other communications.

The office is staffed Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., at our Main Headquarters off Six Mile Cypress Pkwy. For general media inquiries, please email the Public Information Office at publicinformationoffice@sheriffleefl.org or contact via phone at 239.477.1340.

Written records, including arrest affidavits and offense reports, are not available after hours. Staff will not have information readily available regarding non-fatal vehicle crashes, routine arrests, crimes not resulting in death or critical injury, or the status of cases that are not considered breaking news.

Should there be a high profile or large scale incident after hours, on holidays or weekends the media will be notified in the form of a press release.

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Todd
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Sarah
Rodriguez

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Nestor
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Julie
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๐™‡๐˜พ๐™Ž๐™Šโ€™๐™จ ๐™‰๐™–๐™ง๐™˜๐™ค๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™˜๐™จ ๐™๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™ฉ ๐˜ผ๐™ง๐™ง๐™š๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™จ ๐™Ž๐™ช๐™จ๐™ฅ๐™š๐™˜๐™ฉ ๐™›๐™ค๐™ง ๐™๐™ง๐™–๐™›๐™›๐™ž๐™˜๐™ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐˜พ๐™ค๐™˜๐™–๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™šโ€œI am extremely proud of the hard work and dedication our Narcotics Unit has shown in removing drug dealers from our streets,โ€ said ๐™Ž๐™๐™š๐™ง๐™ž๐™›๐™› ๐˜พ๐™–๐™ง๐™ข๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™š ๐™ˆ๐™–๐™ง๐™˜๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ค. โ€œThank you to everyone involved in the arrest of this man, now preventing him from trafficking drugs throughout Lee County.โ€ In recent months, detectives within our Narcotics Unit began looking into 24-year-old ๐™…๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™–๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™‡๐™–๐™ข๐™–๐™ง๐™ง๐™š, ๐™– ๐™ ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฌ๐™ฃ ๐™™๐™ง๐™ช๐™œ ๐™™๐™š๐™–๐™ก๐™š๐™ง ๐™ฌ๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™‡๐™š๐™š ๐˜พ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™ฎThroughout the course of the investigation, detectives successfully purchased trafficking amounts of cocaine from Lamarre on separate occasions, ๐™ฉ๐™ค๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ 132 ๐™œ๐™ง๐™–๐™ข๐™จ ๐™ค๐™› ๐™˜๐™ค๐™˜๐™–๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™š.Last week, detectives executed a search warrant on Lamarreโ€™s residence in Fort Myers. During the search, detectives located additional narcotics and paraphernalia commonly used when selling narcotics. Lamarre was within the residence at the time of the search warrant and was taken into custody without incident. He was taken to the Lee County Jail and charged with ๐™›๐™ค๐™ช๐™ง ๐™˜๐™ค๐™ช๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™จ of ๐™๐™ง๐™–๐™›๐™›๐™ž๐™˜๐™ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐˜พ๐™ค๐™˜๐™–๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™š. ... See MoreSee Less
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Sheriff Carmine Marceno stopped by our Communications Center to spend time meeting with personnel to show his appreciation in honor of #NationalTelecommunicatorsWeek. Theyโ€™re our lifeline, our backbone, and the calm in the chaos. Weโ€™re SO very grateful for our dispatchers, call takers, and entire communications division, who often go unseen, but are truly vital to the interworkings of law enforcement. Canโ€™t wait to see what day 3 brings tomorrow! ๐ŸŽงโญ๏ธ#HeroesBehindTheLines#ThankYou ... See MoreSee Less
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๐‹๐‚๐’๐Ž ๐ข๐ฌ โ€˜๐Ž๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐œโ€™ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐Ž๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐ฉ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐‚๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐’๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐œ๐ž โ€” Itโ€™s been a productive morning at #teamLCSO! BRINC Drones is here training our team as we prepare for ๐ƒ๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ฌ ๐…๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐ฉ๐จ๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ implementation. DFR is paving the way for enhanced responses to calls for service, by deploying drones to provide real-time situational awareness and support to ground units. ๐Ÿ•น๏ธ๐Ÿš”โญ๏ธ ... See MoreSee Less
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๐–๐„'๐‘๐„ ๐‚๐Ž๐”๐๐“๐˜-๐–๐ˆ๐ƒ๐„ ๐–๐ˆ๐“๐‡ ๐‚๐Ÿ’ ๐๐‘๐ˆ๐ƒ๐„ ! ๐Ÿšฏ๐Ÿ—‘๏ธCheck this C4 squad out, Lee County! We are checking off ๐™–๐™ก๐™ก ๐™ค๐™› ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™–๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™จ ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช ๐™จ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™ช๐™จ ๐™™๐™–๐™ž๐™ก๐™ฎ. Check them out assisting with beach clean up & everything in between! During your commute, if you see an area that needs attention, you know what to do.๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿผ Email ๐‚๐š๐ซ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐‚๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ง๐ฎ๐ฉ๐‚๐ซ๐ž๐ฐ@๐ฌ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ฅ๐ž๐ž๐Ÿ๐ฅ.๐จ๐ซ๐  and let us know where you'd like to see us! ๐™น๐š˜๐š’๐š— ๐šข๐š˜๐šž๐š› ๐š‚๐š‘๐šŽ๐š›๐š’๐š๐š, ๐™ฒ๐šŠ๐š›๐š–๐š’๐š—๐šŽ ๐™ผ๐šŠ๐š›๐šŒ๐šŽ๐š—๐š˜, ๐š๐š˜ ๐š‘๐šŽ๐š•๐š™ ๐šŒ๐š˜๐š—๐š๐š’๐š—๐šž๐šŽ ๐š’๐š— ๐š–๐šŠ๐š”๐š’๐š—๐š ๐™ป๐šŽ๐šŽ ๐™ฒ๐š˜๐šž๐š—๐š๐šข ๐™ฟ๐™ฐ๐š๐™ฐ๐™ณ๐™ธ๐š‚๐™ด ๐š๐š˜๐š› ๐šŠ๐š•๐š•. ... See MoreSee Less
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Today, members of our 3rd Precinct, Community Response Unit, and Public Affairs joined forces with Iona McGregor Fire Department, Lee Health staff members, and Lee County EMS to celebrate a very special young man Mason as he got to go home from Golisano Children's Hospital today!We were so happy to be a part of today, and could not be more proud of you Mason! ... See MoreSee Less
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