<http://topics.nola.com/tag/nopd/index-oldest.html>New Orleans police officials announced minutes ago that they have booked a a 22-year veteran of the Police Department with 215 counts of injuring public records and a single count of malfeasance in office.
Emacs!Glenn Gross, who works in the NOPD's information technology department, was writing bogus tickets for seat-belt violations, allowing him to collect extra pay, Superintendent Ronal Serpas said.
The department received a federal grant in June that pays for overtime for officers who enforce seat-belt laws. Rather than doing the work and writing up motorists who had violated the law, Gross, 44, wrote tickets to phantom motorists, officials said.
Officials said the investigation is continuing and that other officers, and possibly a supervisor, are also under scrutiny. Serpas said he couldn't say how much overtime Gross collected as a result of the scam.
Serpas, who held the news conference with Deputy Chief Arlinda Westbrook of the internal affairs unit, said they could find no evidence that Gross wrote any legitimate traffic tickets during this overtime stints.
The investigation into Gross began when a police supervisor grew suspicious of him and reported his alleged misconduct to the Public Integrity Bureau, which investigates complaints against officers, according to the NOPD. The internal affairs unit arrested Gross today.
Source: http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/08/nopd_announces_arrest_of_offic.html
