JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Sheriff T.K. Waters on Wednesday announced the arrest of a former police officer accused of false imprisonment and stalking his ex-girlfriend using a marked police car.
JSO said on Dec. 5, it received the complaint that a man was stalking his former girlfriend. Investigators found out that over several months, it was former Officer Claude Fleurimond following her.
Waters said in October that Fleurimond conducted a traffic stop on her in his marked JSO car and used his police authority to detain her, asking why she stopped communicating with him.
He was then arrested by integrity detectives for false imprisonment and stalking, JSO said.
“Our collective belief and openness and transparency accountability outweighs any personal allegiance to JSO employees,” Waters said. “As we have said before, no one’s above the law, especially in situations like this, if investigators find that there is probable cause to support a criminal allegation of a JSO employee after a comprehensive investigation, this agency will hold that employee accountable.”
Waters said this is the sixth arrest of a JSO employee in 2025.
JSO hired Fleurimond on Aug. 22, 2022.