A California police officer accused of running 5Ks and skiing while out on paid disability leave has been charged, prosecutors say.
The former Westminster police officer, Nicole Brown, 39, of Riverside, was charged with 15 felonies stemming from the alleged workers’ compensation fraud that totaled more than $600,000 in stolen benefits, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said in a May 20 news release.
Her stepfather, Peter Gregory Schuman, 57, of Buena Park, was also charged with two felonies and accused of “conspiring with his stepdaughter to orchestrate the fraudulent workers’ compensation scheme,” prosecutors said…