Rough day for Lt. Swank (Special to the Palm Beach Post)

I’m told the snoring could be heard across the room!

To the right, fellow taxpayer, is Lt. Jeff Swank, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office Internal Affairs executive officer!

And this cell-phone picture of Swank sound asleep obtained by Page2Live has been making the rounds among the chuckling rank and file.

How do I know he’s snoring?

Well, there’s a video, and the sound is quite clear.

I’ve been trying to get a hold of it, but I’m told by an insider that Internal Affairs head Capt. Larry Easton, to0, is hot on the trail of the footage.

Swank was among 70 local enforcement officials at a three-day class last week at the Hilton Palm Beach Airport.

The classroom training focused on the handling of police-involved shootings.

But Swank apparently got so bored he dozed off while fellow policemen, who must have been just as bored, snapped away with cell phones.

Swank’s I.A. squad, by the way, does investigate incidents in which deputies are “rude” during such training sessions.

Said PBSO Chief Deputy Mike Gauger: “Lt. Swank attends college after hours and he was called out twice the previous night.

“Things happen. I fall asleep at church sometimes!”

Mosher's booking mug (Click on the photo for more)

A well-known Palm Beach State College adjunct professor and freshly-retired Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputy was held overnight in the county slammer where he once worked after being arrested in a domestic violence incident.

Seventy-year-old Charlie Mosher, of Royal Palm Beach, was charged with aggravated stalking and aggravated assault after several alleged spats with his estranged wife, Norma Jean Hoefs, since last week. Hoefs, 57, declined comment but confirmed she was his victim.

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Mosher allegedly harassed the lady with incessant phone calls then tailed her in his car around their gated community.

At one point, Hoefs told investigators, she had to swerve off the road to avoid Mosher, who came right at her in his vehicle.

Mosher was released on $10,000-bond about noon today.

He was relieved of duty as a reserve deputy, a volunteer position. Mosher retired from PBSO in June after 22 years as corrections and training deputy.

The six criminal justice courses he taught at the college this term — including “interpersonal skills for corrections officers” and “defensive tactics” — have ended.

The school’s spokeswoman, Dr. Grace Truman, said Mosher has been an adjunct professor since 1992. His status at the school will be evaluated before next term, as is the status of every adjunct professor, she said.

– With Palm Beach Post researcher Niels Heimeriks

Wolff, as emergency room doc at JFK Medical Center in 2001 (The Palm Beach Post)

Five Palm Beach County municipalities quietly fired their contracted medical director — Dr. Randall Wolff — after DEA agents reported that Wolff is under “pill mill” investigation.

Wolff, 60, of Delray Beach, is a critical care doctor who wrote EMS procedures for fire rescue in the Town of Palm Beach, North Palm Beach, Greenacres, Delray Beach and West Palm Beach and provided continuing education for emergency techs.

In Delray, Wolff’s $130,000-a-year contract also covered physicals for cops and fire fighters.

What’s more, the departments piggy-backed on Wolff’s DEA license to prescribe drugs, allowing ambulance crews on accident and crime scene to dispense dangerous drugs such as morphine, dilaudid and tranquilizers.

Now, turns out Wolff may also have been busy running a pain clinic that illegally sold powerful pain killers!

He was listed as owner of Coast to Coast Pain Management Inc. in Deerfield Beach, according to state records. And the clinic, on Hillsboro Boulevard, was raided by agents of the federal Drug Enforcement Agency Dec. 16.

That day, the five city halls were visited by DEA agents and some fire rescue records may have been seized.

Click here to view Wolff’s termination letter from West Palm Beach

Wolff hasn’t been arrested but his DEA license to dispense controlled substances and narcotics was pulled pending the investigation’s results, according to records. That forced the fire departments to replace Wolff in a hurry or face ordering EMTs to stop injecting drugs.

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Well-known Riviera Beach Police Sgt. Toney Williams was placed on restricted duty while Internal Affairs sleuths dissect an incident that started when residents called 9-11 to report that Williams was peeing in their yard.

Williams, a crime watch and community policing liaison, was stripped of his badge and gun Feb. 28, according to city spokeswoman Rose Anne Brown, on suspicion of a “conduct unbecoming an officer.” He’s now assigned to the records division.

“I’m not allowed to talk to anybody,” Williams said this morning.

The incident occurred about 10 p.m. Feb. 25 on West 16th Street as Williams was off-duty.

According to the internal report obtained by Page2Live, Williams went on a loud tirade laden with four-letter words when on-duty fellow officers responded to the scene, calling one of them “@#&* cracker” and shouting “I’m still a sergeant, God damn it!” as residents watched.

“I went and took a piss in those people’s backyard, what the #$&*,” Williams yelled as he stood by his parked personal car, according to the report.

While officers smelled liquor on his breath, according to the report, one source said they weren’t sure he was drunk or “just being his loud, boisterous self.”

Williams refused several offers for a ride home and the half dozen cops left the scene when he agreed to go inside a friend’s home.

No arrest was made, even minutes later, when officers spotted Williams at the wheel of his beat up, brown Caprice.

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Two former members of The Enforcers bikers club were nabbed after allegedly vandalizing the motorcycle group’s Riviera Beach clubhouse.

The vandalism, says the Enforcers’ president, could be tied to a rival club based on Florida’s Left Coast, The Defenders, trying to muscle in on Riviera Beach!

And here’s the twist of this tale: The members of both The Enforcers and The Defenders are retired cops, security guards and veterans!

“We’ve heard the Defenders are trying to start a chapter right here,” said Enforcers boss Rick Sessa, a retired Riviera Beach Police lieutenant. Under his biker name Rosco, he founded the club in 2001 and has about 500 members nationally. “The two guys who were arrested left us four months ago and we’re wondering if the vandalism wasn’t their initiation for The Defenders.

“If they did it so they could get patched (admitted), they didn’t do too well.”

Randall Case, 32, a Lake Worth security guard whose biker name is Thor, and retired U.S. Coast Guard pilot Sam DeFazio, 51, of Jupiter, a.k.a. D’Bull, were charged with two counts each of criminal mischief Friday night.

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DeFazio denied the duo’s involvement in the vandalism.

West Palm Beach Police, however, are investigating another incident at the private home of a current member of The Enforcers, and DeFazio admitted he and Case are suspects.

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