Longtime employee Captain Donnie Elomina retired from the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office last week after 30 years with the agency.

At a luncheon held on Friday, friends and colleagues said goodbye to the long time Lower Keys Station Commander. Captain Elomina was hired in December of 1985 as a corrections deputy. He transferred to road patrol in October of 1987. After that, he worked in a number of different positions; as a detective, internal affairs inspector, detective sergeant and lieutenant in charge of the Lower Keys District Substation, supervising all Lower Keys Road Patrol deputies and detectives.