Quesada v. City of Tampa

KHOUZAM, Judge.

Travis Quesada appeals the circuit court’s order denying his motion to vacate an arbitration award which determined that the City of Tampa (the City) had properly terminated his employment with Tampa Fire Rescue. We reverse and vacate the arbitration award.

On September 24, 2007, Quesada was dismissed from his employment with Tampa Fire Rescue after a second drug test came back positive for suspicious levels of the metabolite 19-norandrosterone. This result suggested that Quesada had taken the anabolic steroid Nandrolone and had *925been untruthful in his responses to departmental…