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Florida Cop Punished With 'Training/Counseling' for Farting in Colleague's Face

Police often call their profession a brotherhood, but two Palm Beach sheriff's deputies took the analogy too far.

C.J. Ciaramella | 4.2.2026 10:38 AM

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A Palm Beach County detective was disciplined for farting in a fellow deputy's face, public records obtained by Reason show.

A Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office (PBSO) personnel complaint filed on November 17, 2025, alleged that Detective James Coppola had "engaged in horseplay by passing gas in Deputy [Joshua] Mohammed's face" in the PBSO's District 9 detective bureau.

The complaint was not filed by the target of Coppola's rude eruption, but rather the District 9........

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