Arcadia, FLA - Major mistakes by an officer at the Arcadia Police Department may have lead to the dismissal of 13 drug cases in Desoto County.

A year-long Call For Action investigation uncovered serious allegations about the integrity of former Detective Deighton Bolt, and his role in the arrest of a police sergeant accused of having sex with minors.

Several Arcadia attorneys complained to the Arcadia Police Department that Bolt was lying on his arrest affidavits. One even had evidence in a sworn deposition that Bolt had knowingly lied on a report.

"When a police officer lies in a sworn affidavit his credibility comes into issue," said Jimmy Rios, an Arcadia defense attorney who represents an accused drug user who was arrested by Bolt.

Rios claims another former officer, Byron Waters witnessed Bolt's deception.

Waters said he was involved in a traffic stop on September 26,2007 at the intersection of Mills and Gibson Streets.

At 12:19 a.m Waters and his boss, Sgt. Ken Bennett stopped Rios' clients, Tiffany Hamrick-Frank and he passenger David Neil Carr.

Waters said that Officer Deighton Bolt showed up later, and Hamrick-Frank and Carr were arrested for drugs and Bolt was put in charge of writing the report.

"Couple nights later after the traffic stop was done I read the police report .... everything in there was not true," said Waters.

In the report obtained by Call For Action, Bolt writes that he stopped the car and he found drugs. But dispatch records show that Bolt did not arrive until 1:21 a.m., more than an hour after the initial stop.

After Rios learned about the report, he started asking questions.

In fact we ended up deposing detective bolt over that issue where he actually admitted to us perjury," said Rios.

In the deposition Rios asked, "Detective Bolt, Have you ever knowingly perjured yourself on any affidavit?"

Bolt answered, "Yes, sir, I have."

"If this officer was willing to invent a police report then it has to cast doubt in every case he has," said Rios.

Call for Action found several other cases where Bolt either left out or got key facts wrong.

In undercover video obtained from the State Attorney's Office, Bolt fails to mention that are two confidential informants taking part in an undercover drug buy for the Arcadia Police Department.

On another undercover bust, the report is for a suspect named Nikia Hatcher, but on the tape Bolt is heard saying they are doing a buy with Ezekiah Moody.

On yet another bust, Bolt refers to Hatcher as Kenya Wilson.

His mistakes did not go unnoticed.

Sgt. Ken Bennett issued Bolt a written reprimand in January of 2008 for waiting 24 days to complete a report and not entering stolen items into a federal database.

Bolt received another reprimand in November for writing inaccurate reports, and a third in December.

But during that time, he received two pay raises.

On December 4, 2008 the State Attorney's Office called the police about information missing from yet another case.

"It's a very big domino effect because once the fact he perjured himself came out then it calls into question every case behind it and in front of it," said Rios.

Which is exactly what happened, the public defender found out and forced the dismissal of thirteen drug cases.

Bolt eventually resigned and stated in his resignation letter it was due to the fact that the state attorney's office would not honor any more of his cases.

The head of the Arcadia Police Department Marshal Charles Lee would not speak on camera about the allegations surrounding Bolt because of a separate ethics investigation into the entire department.

Lee provided Call For Action with documents that he said would help explain things and told us about an FDLE investigation that cleared Bolt criminally.

Deighton Bolt did not respond to phone calls or answer the door.

His credibility plays into another case as well, that involves his boss.

Bolt turned in Sgt. Ken Bennett for allegedly taking teenage boys to a Fort Myers hotel, offering them drugs and alcohol, then having sex with them.

Bolt played a major role investigating the case.

A separate investigation found incriminating evidence, but Bennett's attorney said he wants the case thrown out.

He believes Bennett was a target for retribution because he blew the whistle on other issues in the department

Officer Byron Waters resigned from the department as well, but not without repercussions.

After his resignation, Arcadia police suddenly filed a report against him, accusing him a stealing lights from a patrol car. Those charges were dropped.

"I still feel good about being honest it was right thing to do what what's right right and what's wrong is wrong," said Waters.

Both Ken Bennett and Byron Waters have filed ethics complaints against the department.