Former Windermere Police Chief Daniel Saylor, was again arrested today, on one count of perjury for allegedly providing false testimony during the sexual battery trail of Scott Bush, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said Friday.
Saylor was arrested without incident today at the state probation office in Casselberry, Fla. and booked into the Seminole County Jail without bond.
It is the second time Saylor has been arrested in connection with this case. He was first arrested in Jan. 2011 for one count of giving unlawful compensation for official behavior, and one count of official misconduct. The charges stem from a 2010 FDLE investigation alleging Saylor terminated an investigation by his department into the sexual battery of a child to keep a friend from going to jail. The sexual battery was alleged to have been committed by Scott Frederick Bush of Windermere, Fla. Bush was subsequently arrested by FDLE and convicted of sexual battery on a person less than 12 years of age and lewd and lascivious acts upon a minor.
State Attorney Jeffrey Ashton’s office, obtained transcripts of Saylor’s testimony and provided those transcripts to FDLE with the request that that agency investigate suspected false statements. That investigation led to these new charges. State Attorney Ashton will also submit this information to the Department of Corrections for the filing of an allegation of violation of Saylor’s probation.
“Provable perjury cases will be filed by this office and pursued with vigor,” Ashton said. “Should Mr. Saylor be convicted in this case, we will be seeking a sentence of imprisonment from the court as a warning to all that perjury will not be tolerated by this office.”
