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Updated: 8:08 AM Feb 27, 2009 Sheriff Harvey Cited for Accident State Attorney investigation results in Sheriff being cited in accident. CONTAINS FIRST MEDIA INTERVIEW WITH SHERIFF HARVEY. Posted: 8:59 AM Feb 25, 2009 Reporter: Jaimee Colley Email Address: jaimee.colley@wctv.tv

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Updated 1:04 p.m. (2/25/09)

WCTV Interview with Sheriff David Harvey:

WCTV had an exclusive interview with Sheriff David Harvey Wednesday morning (2/25).

Sheriff Harvey says he plans to pay both of his tickets.

Sheriff Harvey apologizes and feels embarrassed about the incident. He says leaving the scene was just "stupidity" and that he didn't think that he hit the vehicle "that hard".

Sheriff Harvey says alcohol was not a factor in the crash. He also says he wishes the deputies would have given him a ticket on scene and it was wrong that they did not.

The Sheriff tells WCTV that he plans to place himself on a one-week, unpaid, suspension.

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Updated 12:14 p.m. (2/25/09)

The State Attorney's Office has issued a traffic citation for careless driving to the Wakulla County Sheriff involved in a hit and run accident last week.

Authorities say there is evidence Sheriff David Harvey had been drinking earlier in the day.

WCTV spoke with State Attorney Willie Meggs who says Sheriff Harvey also faces a misdemeanor charge of leaving the scene of an accident.

Meggs also says there is evidence that Harvey was drinking earlier in the day the accident happened.

But witnesses say he was not impaired.

Sheriff Harvey was driving North on Rehwinkle Road at nine o'clock Friday night when he hit a parked SUV.

The Sheriff then left and called deputies from his home.

The Wakulla County Sheriff's Office took over the investigation, but earlier this week Sheriff Harvey asked State Attorney Willie Meggs to do a separate investigation.

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2/25/09 at 8:45 a.m.

The State Attorney's Office is confirming today that Wakulla County Sheriff David Harvey has now received a traffic citation for that hit-and-run accident last week.

Harvey's SUV hit the rear end of another SUV in a driveway last Friday.

Harvey left the scene and called in the accident later from home.

State Attorney Willie Meggs and his staff have finished their investigation and Harvey received a citation for careless driving.

He also faces a misdemeanor charge of leaving the scene of an accident.

Harvey is quoted in the Wakulla News as saying he has fully cooperated with the investigation and "will be happy to seek legal advice and go from here."

A local commissioner has requested an investigation by FDLE.

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Posted by: POP Location: crawfordville on Mar 2, 2009 at 12:06 PM

What kind of sheriff would to his county and say he wasnt drinking. Pleaseeee. Are you kidding?

Posted by: Frank Underwood Calvin Kole Location: formerly wakulla on Feb 28, 2009 at 09:24 PM

so crooked..........

Posted by: Concerned Location: Citizen on Feb 28, 2009 at 08:54 AM

This person that calls himself the Sheriff of Wakulla County is just another example of our sick society. Our children have no honorable leaders to look up to in this day we live in. David Harvey has shown a great lack of honor, good judgement, intregrity and character as does his staff that plays out like puppets in this cover up. These grown men who act like little children should be ashamed of themselves. My Labrador Retriever has a greater sense of responsibility than they do. For the Sheriff to get on TV and say that his people and the States Attourney have determined that he was not impaired is such a joke. Was he given a blood alcohol test or a breath test to determine this? Who do these people think we are in this community? A bunch of mindless Bozos? It just humors me to see how Harvey and his upper staff intimidated his employees and different citizens during the election and then continues to do it now for their own personal liking. The chickens will come home to roost.

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