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
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