SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – Several Seminole County deputies were retrained after handcuffing the wrong man in an Oviedo shoplifting case earlier this year, the sheriff’s office said.

Around 10 p.m. on June 9, deputies responded to a home in the 2700 block of Teak Place, near Lake Mary, referencing an attempt by Oviedo police to contact a subject in a shoplifting investigation, according to a report.

Police told deputies there was probable cause to arrest a man there over a shoplifting that allegedly occurred at a Winn-Dixie along Lockwood Boulevard, also tying in a vehicle of interest that the deputies did not report seeing at the home, investigators said.

Deputies were met at the home by a family, as well as by a man who confirmed his name was the same as the person being sought for ques

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