LAKELAND, FL -- A Polk County deputy disgraced by his family's pranks gave up his badge earlier this week.
Charles "Chip" Buckner resigned after serving 21 years with the Polk County Sheriffs Office. An arrest report shows Bucker's wife, Gail, and his mother-in-law took his patrol car without his knowledge and drove around Lakeland.
Witnesses said the cruiser was being driven erratically throughout Lakeland on Sunday morning by two blonde women in the front seat and a man in the back seat. Another deputy followed the car home to Buckner's home where the trio was arrested.
Gail Buckner and Sharon Cooper faces charges of car theft, theft of a firearm and impersonating a cop.
Gail Buckner is also looking at a charge of Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon.
Alexander Quintasket was riding in the back seat and is charged with similar crimes.
The incident remains under investigation by the Polk County internal review department.
