Crime · Winter Garden, FL
Winter Garden SRO at Independence Elementary Arrested in Polk County Sting
Eric Raymond, 40, of Winter Garden, an Orange County Sheriff's Office school resource deputy assigned to Independence Elementary School in Horizon West, was arrested in the Polk County Sheriff's Office seven-day undercover operation "Polk Around and Find Out II" on one count of solicitation of a prostitute. Two additional Winter Garden residents, Timothy John Komaromy, 32, and William John Caruso III, 52, were also arrested in the same operation on charges including use of computer to solicit a guardian and attempted lewd/lascivious battery on a minor. The broader sting resulted in 281 arrests across multiple agencies, with 31 related to child sexual predators and 239 tied to prostitution-related offenses.