The officer, an investigator in the Sanford PD’s Professional Standards unit, was charged with 79 counts of official misconduct, as well as organized fraud

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

  • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    45·
    6 days ago

    2 or 3 is the cops fault. 79 means that there is zero accountability happening, and this is probably the tip of the iceberg.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      5 days ago

      This guy was apparently also responsible for keeping the records.

      The investigation leading to Neal’s arrest began after SPD’s finance department in July 2024 discovered a number of accounts where vendors appeared not to have reimbursed the department. Neal, who also served as off-duty detail coordinator, was asked to turn over invoices from those accounts, but many — in particular those from Lofts at Eden paying Neal for off-duty work — remained unresolved by the time the police administration was made aware of the issue in August of this year.

      • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        5 days ago

        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.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 days ago

      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.

        • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          5 days ago

          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.