Alphonso Lofton was the first African-American trooper in the Florida Highway Patrol. He joined the patrol in 1970 after witnessing an FHP trooper investigating a hit-and-run accident. After graduating from the academy, he was assigned to Field Operations in Miami's Troop E, and in 1973, he was promoted to Traffic Homicide Investigator. He became a recruiter in 1981 to encourage more African-Americans into the FHP.
He received the Martin Luther King Brotherhood Award. He passed away in 1984 at 39 from multiple sclerosis.
In 2019, he was inducted into the Florida Law Enforcement Officers' Hall of Fame.
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