Fla. officer charged after allegedly faking 79 off-duty shifts for which he was paid more than $12K
SANFORD, Fla. — A 23-year veteran and former spokesperson for the Sanford Police Department was arrested Tuesday after being paid thousands of dollars for allegedly fake off-duty work shifts.
Ronny Neal, an investigator in SPD’s Professional Standards unit, was charged with 79 counts of official misconduct. That’s one for each alleged instance of fraudulently submitting timesheets containing off-duty work at Lofts at Eden apartments between October 2023 and July 2024
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2 or 3 is the cops fault. 79 means that there is zero accountability happening, and this is probably the tip of the iceberg.
This guy was apparently also responsible for keeping the records.
Seattle has had a decades long struggle to get it's police guild, SPOG, to agree to oversight like... reporting hours in a timely manner. They've discovered dozens of examples of repeated overtime reported months late, because they use paper records and apparently have zero oversight. Beat cops pulling 200 or 300k with 'overtime'. The city council mandated a new system implementation in 2013 iirc and it still is being argued over.
Lmao who the fuck thought that was a good idea?
79 times and he's only 23 years old. That guy is set to be a highly reguarded politician.
E: 23 year old "veteran", 49 years old.
I might be getting whooshed but 23-year veteran means he's been a cop for 23 years.
You were right, I finished reading this part and was damn he knocked it all out on a couple years and stopped reading.
"Ronny Neal, an investigator in SPD’s Professional Standards unit, was charged with 79 counts of official misconduct. That’s one for each alleged instance of fraudulently submitting timesheets containing off-duty work at Lofts at Eden apartments between October 2023 and July 2024."
79 times in 3/4 of a year. That's an impressive amount of lying about off duty work. That would mean he would have to lie on his paycheck about two shifts a week.
Lemmitor: sees cop doing the most cop shit imaginable
Also lemmitor: "Polichishuns amirite?"
If I had been subject to one of these tests at this department, I would be pole vaulting off this right into a courtroom.
They're not admissible in court (because they're bullshit), and are basically just a prop the police use to coerce confessions - so I'm doubtful that this would be cause for appeal
Wow, they actually charged him. I thought this was usually a retire early situation and the prosecutor shrugs their shoulders?
Usually yes, but he made the mistake of stealing from them
Imagine how much money he ripped off from taxpayers over 23 years. Ffs.
If $12K is all he managed over 79 instances, probably not nearly as much as you seem to be implying. He probably stuck to small-time stuff in hopes that if he was ever caught they'd rather hide it than embarrass themselves (as has historically been typically the case). Seems he bet wrong on that. Maybe things actually are improving, albeit in the most minimal of ways
This was about him moonlighting as private security. He ripped off the people at the Lofts at Eden apartments, not the taxpayers.
Edit: actually, I'm only kinda half-right. It's supposed to be the private entity on the hook for the cost, but apparently the money flows though the department anyway instead of the officer being directly employed by the private entity.
Part of this guy's fraud (and I guess, how he hoped not to get caught, but which backfired) was that he wasn't actually charging the client.
Yes it's a problem. Is it a nothing story compared to other problems? YES!
You know, for being a relatively small suburbia of Orlando they sure are in the news about.