The Windermere police chief who was fired after allegedly
covering up a sex battery case involving his friend has been denied bond after
he was arrested Friday.
Daniel Saylor, 46, has been arrested on one charge of
perjury for providing false testimony during the Scott Bush trial, according to
deputies. Saylor turned himself into the Casselberry probation office Friday
afternoon.
This is the second time Saylor has been arrested in
connection with this case, according to FDLE officials. He was first arrested
in Jan. 2011 for one count of giving unlawful compensation for official
behavior, and one count of official misconduct.
“Provable perjury
cases will be filed by this office and pursued with vigor,” State Attorney Jeff
Ashton said in a release. “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
The arrest comes the same day that Bush, Saylor's friend
whose sex battery case resulted in his termination, is sentenced to life in
prison.
Saylor faced one year of jail time in 2011 after a Florida
Department of Law Enforcement investigation accused him of halting a child-sex
investigation into Bush and urging one of his officers to destroy records.
Saylor was fired from his job and lost his police
certification. Bush was convicted of sexual battery, lewd or lascivious
molestation and battery.