The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office has accused Loxahatchee Groves of breaching its contract and will no longer assign deputies to patrol the 12.5-square-mile town.
The agency said it still will respond to life-threatening calls and provide “service consistent with unincorporated Palm Beach County.”
The town has long complained about its PBSO contract, saying it cannot afford to pay the required $680,000 a year. In what what Town Council members called an effort to force PBSO to renegotiate, Loxahatchee Groves refused to make its Dec. 1 monthly payment…