Man spends month in jail for laundry detergent; deputy said it was heroin

MARTIN COUNTY, FL (WPBF/CNN) — A deputy has been fired after being of accused of putting 11 innocent people behind bars.

The sheriff said the deputy faked multiple drug test results.

One victim, who spent a month behind bars, said firing the deputy is not enough.

Matt Crull said he appreciates something as mundane as making dinner after spending more than a month behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit.

“Very surreal when you’re sitting in jail with a half a million dollars bond and you can’t go anywhere, knowing that you didn’t do wrong,” he said.

Crull is one of 11 people recently released from the Martin County Jail. The sheriff said they were all falsely arrested by Deputy Steven O’Leary.

The sheriff said O’Leary was somehow faking the results of drug tests.

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