SHIELDS OF SHAME • MARTIN COUNTY CASE NETWORK
One traffic stop. Six connected investigations.
Explore the February 13, 2025 Stuart traffic stop, each officer’s documented connection and the separate $10,300 records-fee dispute. Being at the scene does not establish wrongdoing; where the record does not show a specific action, we say so.
Records request #2371-2025: invoice, deposit demand, agency correspondence and unresolved accounting questions.
Primary deputy; authored the traffic-stop and arrest report involving passenger Giselle Flores.
Responding deputy, CAD unit 513; her actions and the reported filming dispute are examined separately.
Responding deputy, CAD unit 516; the record establishes attendance, not a specific arrest action.
S02 responding unit; arrived after a request for a supervisory unit. His decisions remain unverified.
Agency-identified sergeant connected through supplied scene imagery; not among the four CAD-listed units.
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Tatiana R. Levenar: Employment Records, the Filmed Traffic Stop and the $10,300 Public-Records Dispute
A February 2025 traffic stop near Stuart, Florida, raised questions about passengers’ rights, police accountability and filming officers in public. Deputy Tatiana R. Levenar was one of the responding officers. Her records also became part of Shields of Shame’s larger investigation into a $10,300 records estimate.
Agency image supplied with this investigation.
February 13, 2025: Martin County incident 2025-00021924, traffic stop at 2401 S. Kanner Highway, Stuart. CAD identifies Nicholas Thomas as the primary unit and Tatiana Levenar as a responding deputy. The broader investigative file includes employment, certification and older administrative records. A records-fee estimate is disputed in a separate linked investigation.
The traffic stop that started the investigation
According to the Sheriff’s Office computer-aided dispatch (CAD) record, the stop was initiated around 1:20 a.m. on February 13, 2025, near the Wawa on South Kanner Highway. Nicholas Thomas was recorded as the primary deputy. Levenar, Adam Tuttle and Henry Mogler also appear in the responding-unit list. Levenar’s unit is logged at 1:21 a.m.
Shields of Shame’s original reporting describes a stop involving a window-tint issue, questions directed at a passenger and a subsequent arrest. The reporting identifies a resisting-without-violence charge and a seatbelt citation. The precise sequence and legal basis for each demand should be assessed against the complete incident report, recordings and court disposition, rather than inferred from the CAD alone.
Read the original Martin County CAD record ↗
The camera confrontation
The original Shields of Shame account reports that body-camera footage captures Levenar telling the driver he could not film her. That statement is the focus of this dossier’s filming-rights inquiry. The claim is attributed to the site’s reporting; the full recording has not been independently re-reviewed for this page.
Recording police performing public duties can receive First Amendment protection, subject to lawful, content-neutral restrictions and noninterference. A person filming does not automatically gain permission to obstruct an officer, but an officer’s personal objection to being recorded does not itself create a prohibition. The exact words, setting and any safety directions matter to a legal analysis.
Read the related investigation and review its embedded video and source records before drawing conclusions about the stop.
Employment and certification history
The records assembled for this profile include a redacted personnel file, an FDLE record and a separate 2018 administrative file. Public records also identify Levenar as an Indian River County Sheriff’s Office deputy in a June 2019 arrest affidavit, and as a Martin County responding deputy in February 2025. Those two dated references establish service at the two agencies at those points in time; they do not by themselves establish every hiring, transfer or separation date.
For a complete employment chronology, readers should examine the FDLE and personnel PDFs directly. The contents of the newly supplied PDFs have not yet been independently extracted and verified for this article, so this page does not assign an unverified disciplinary finding, resignation reason or certification sanction to Levenar.
2018 administrative file: 2018AI-047 / 2018-D-0036
The supplied document is identified by administrative case numbers 2018AI-047 and 2018-D-0036. An administrative case number does not itself prove wrongdoing. The allegations, interviews, findings and final disposition should be read in the actual file. We are making the original document available without characterizing a finding that has not been verified.
View 2018 Internal Affairs / Discipline File ↗
View Redacted Personnel Records ↗
View FDLE Certification / Employment Record ↗
Why her records connect to the $10,300 estimate
Levenar was one of the deputies identified in the traffic-stop investigation that led Shields of Shame to request additional Martin County Sheriff’s Office records. The related dossier reports that the agency quoted $10,300 for public records. Its deposit letter and invoice are published there, alongside the incident records and a discussion of Florida’s extensive-use fee rules.
$10,300 for Public Records?
See the separate Martin County dossier for the agency’s estimate, original deposit letter, invoice and analysis. The quote does not establish that the amount was paid or that a court found it unlawful.
2026 update: Levenar appears in nationally reported DUI footage
In April 2026, reporting on the Tiger Woods rollover-crash investigation identified Levenar as the Martin County deputy who conducted roadside sobriety testing and informed Woods that he was being arrested on suspicion of DUI. This is a separate incident, included to document her later public-facing law-enforcement role; it is not evidence about the February 2025 stop or the 2018 administrative case.
Read the April 2026 body-camera coverage ↗
Additional visual record
View additional supplied image ↗
Questions still open
- What exactly was said to the person filming, and what circumstances preceded that exchange?
- What did the incident report and full recordings document about the passenger’s detention and arrest?
- What are the final findings in administrative case 2018AI-047 / 2018-D-0036?
- What does the FDLE record establish about Levenar’s agency dates and certification status?
- Was the $10,300 records estimate subsequently revised or challenged?
Right of reply and editorial standards
Levenar and the Martin County Sheriff’s Office may provide documentation, corrections or responses. Shields of Shame distinguishes allegations, official records, findings and unresolved questions. An administrative investigation is not a criminal conviction; appearing in a traffic-stop report does not establish misconduct. This page will be updated when further primary records are reviewed.
Research sources: Martin County CAD, prior Shields of Shame reporting, supplied records linked above, Indian River County arrest affidavit (2019), and April 2026 body-camera news coverage.
October 2026 primary-record update
CAD assigns Levenar to unit 513 at 1:21 a.m., marks arrival at 1:27 a.m. and clearing at 1:51 a.m. Thomas is the reporting deputy and describes the arrest in his own report. The CAD does not establish Levenar made the arrest or issued a particular citation; claims about filming must be checked against the full video.
Related: Read the expanded $10,300 records investigation. The March 24 request was narrowed on March 28 and March 31 before the April 8 invoice. The deposit letter claims 412 hours; its visible tasks itemize 208 hours 45 minutes of potentially chargeable work, plus a 30-minute meeting marked free. These figures require reconciliation, not an assumption of illegality.