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Warden Caught in Sex Sting
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1996, page 19
The Superintendent of Florida's Polk Correctional Institution resigned on the night of April 11, 1996, just hours after he was charged with propositioning an undercover sheriff's deputy at a local park. Evon Alexis Colchiski, 39, was one of the twenty men arrested during a Polk County Sheriff's Office sting operation …
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