A former Florida Department of Juvenile Justice probation officer was arrested on 114 felony counts after she allegedly accessed a state database 106 times over five months (after her termination) and leaked arrest warrants to members of a drug trafficking organization.
Crystal Lawson, 32, was hired as a juvenile probation officer in February 2022 and fired eight months later following a battery arrest. Despite being fired, her access to the Comprehensive Case Information System was never revoked.
Between January and May 2026, Lawson logged into the database to search for active criminal cases involving members of a single drug trafficking organization and then leaked arrest warrants to the suspects, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. The leaked information resulted in lost evidence, unrecovered assets, and allowed at least one suspect to flee before being apprehended.
Lawson faces up to 570 years in prison if convicted on all counts. The judge set her bond at $10,000 per count. That’s $1.14 million.
Lawson had full database access rather than being limited to her assigned cases. When she was fired, IT and HR departments failed to properly revoke her credentials and verify that system access was completely terminated. Access logs for databases should be reviewed daily, and suspicious access patterns should immediately trigger attention, security experts said.
