Port Richey Police Chief Joseph H. Donahue.  Mr. Donahue moved to Florida in 1957 from New York and became the Port Richey Chief of Police in 1962.  In 1977 he was hired by newly-elected Sheriff John M. Short and was appointed to Captain and then Detective. As detective Donahue was appointed to a special task force to investigate organized crime in Pasco County.  Capt. Donahue resigned from the Sheriff's Office on October 31, 1981 after being arrested on racketeering charges involved with accepting money for Sheriff John M. Short's campaign from undercover F.B.I. agents at King's Court in Holiday in exchange for information about undercover vehicles and operations of the Pasco Sheriff's Office.  On Apr. 19, 1983, two days before testifying against Sheriff John Short and other Pasco County public officials, Donahue was found dead in his Golden Acres home of a gunshot wound to the head.  His death was ruled a suicide by the Pasco County Sheriff's Office and Sheriff John Short in a botched investigation, many believed he had been murdered by organized crime figures whom he had been investigating.  (From private collection)