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By HENRY FREDERICK

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. --For a little more than a decade now, CentralFlorida'smajor news outlets have long since become the servant to the master of the microphone and video camera -- Mike Chitwood -- the reality star of law enforcement media theatrics.

But how well do any of us real ever know someone in a position of public trust and who wieldspoliticalpower. Often, it is someone who comes across as engaging and above reproach.

Consider foul-mouthed Mike Chitwood, Volusia County' s sheriff since January and ex-Daytona Beach PD chief,who, in the past10 1/2 years, has had more face time in the Central Florida media spotlight than any othernewsmaker alongthe I-4 corridor -- from Disney and the Attractions to the rollingocean surfand hard sands of the World's Most Famous Beach.

Chitwood has hogged the spotlight more thanTiger Woods andShaquille O'Neal. More than Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs and Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer.More than Dwight Howard,Grant Hill andVince Carter. And way more than John Morgan of Morgan and Morgan and auto accident negligenceattorney Mark Nejame.

Chitwood has George Zimmerman and Casey Anthony beat. It's not even close, even when they are combined. Chitwood even created his own theatricalOscar moment by coaxing a despondent George Anthony from a seedy beachside motel in favor of a waiting bed in the psych ward at Halifax Hospital just up the road from Daytona International Speedway.

But for all the attention he has generated tin the media as a tough talking, no-nonsense top cop, there appears to be a dark side that with aperverse, in the Chitwood also has a darksidetherhere appears to be a dark side to him that with a subtle hints that is beccwhat dohere appears to be a dark side to Chitwood

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FARCE BEHIND THE FORCE: Daytona Beach's Mike Chitwood, Central Florida's vulgar microphone-media lawman du ... - Headline Surfer