The police chief and an officer at a California state psychiatric hospital in Norwalk are facing felony grand theft charges in an alleged timecard fraud scheme, officials announced Wednesday.
“We will prove this was a coordinated, deliberate scheme between a police chief and his officer to take taxpayer money for work that was never done,” Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman said.
From November 2022 through April 2023, former Chief of Police for the California Department of State Hospitals – Metropolitan in Norwalk, Donald Santarin Salvador, 44, and former hospital police officer Daniel James Beauregard, 52, allegedly schemed to submit timecards for hours that Beauregard did not spend performing police duties, according to the District Attorney’s Office…