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LARGO---A former corrections officer with the Pinellas County Sheriff's Department will spend the next two years and the other side of the bars.
Jeffrey McCann, 30, has been sentenced to state prison after pleading no contest to charges of aggravated stalking, burglary, witness tampering and battery.
McCann who had been employed by the sheriff's department for two years prior to his resignation in March, was arrested twice last February and again in May for allegedly stalking a woman who worked in the jail as an information specialist.
McCann was sentenced to 10 years in prison but received an eight year suspended sentence in a plea deal negotiated with the Pinellas-Pasco state attorney's office. Following his release from prison, he will be on eight years of probation, cannot live in Florida and is prohibited from having any contact with the victim or her family.
According to court records, McCann allegedly choked and punched the woman at a restaurant, threatening to kill her and carry her away. At the time, police said he was carrying a Glock handgun, two knives and a retractable night stick.
After posting $150 bail in that arrest, he went to the woman's home after being released from jail, displayed a knife and threatened her not to testify against him. He was arrested again in May for allegedly stalking the woman, calling her and telling her not to testify against him. 1-27-06
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