{"id":20283,"date":"2013-03-25T16:37:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T20:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20283"},"modified":"2013-03-25T16:37:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T20:37:25","slug":"retired-officer-is-director-of-security-at-golf-resort-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20283","title":{"rendered":"Retired Officer Is Director Of Security At Golf Resort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY IRIS B. HOLTON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sentinel City Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After more than 25 years in law enforcement a Tampa native obtained employment at an exclusive golf resort. Recently, he received a promotion.<\/p>\n<p>For more than two decades, <strong>Marion Lewis<\/strong> patrolled the streets of Tampa as a police officer. His career ended when he decided to run for public office, and he was forced into retirement.<\/p>\n<p>After retiring, <strong>Lewis <\/strong>engaged in a 5-year legal battle with the City of Tampa. He recently accepted a monetary settlement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lewis <\/strong>was hired as the Security Manager at Saddlebrook Resort in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>He was recently promoted to Director of Security at the upscale resort.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a long and successful career in law enforcement, we quickly saw how his calm demeanor coupled with his ability to provide security while maintaining a sense of hospitality would be a tremendous benefit to the resort. <strong>Marion\u2019s<\/strong> ability to organize is sure to bring a heightened professionalism to the department and his sometimes overwhelming knowledge of law enforcement will be a training tool for all,\u201d <strong>Patrick J. Ciaccio<\/strong>, General Manager of Saddlebrook said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lewis<\/strong> said, \u201cI am honored to have the opportunity to lead a security department that has the responsibility to provide security for a beautiful Resort that consists of 480 acres including residential communities and guests that visits our Resort from every corner of the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have approached my second career with as much determination and vigor as I did in my 27-year career with the Tampa Police Department.\u00a0 Although I am extremely happy with my current position; in the distant future I do plan on making another run for political office.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor After more than 25 years in law enforcement a Tampa native obtained employment at an exclusive golf resort. Recently, he received a promotion. For more than two decades, Marion Lewis patrolled the streets of Tampa as a police officer. His career ended when he decided to run for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}