An investigator for a South Florida medical examiner’s office is accused of stealing the credit card information of at least one deceased county resident, according to court records.
According to Broward County online court records, Darrell Fernando Reid, 38, of Pembroke Pines, was arrested on Jan. 19 and charged with three counts of criminal use of a dead person’s identification and one count of fraudulent use of a credit card.
Reid had been an investigator with the Broward Medical Examiner’s Office, the Sun-Sentinel reported. He was accused of stealing the credit card of a deceased person and used it to charge approximately $450.
His job with the medical examiner’s office was to document scenes by taking photographs, according to the Sun-Sentinel . He was hired on April 17, 2023, and did not have contact with any victims’ bodies, the newspaper reported.
According to an arrest affidavit from the Coral Springs Police Department, Reid was among officials called to a residence in Coral Springs on Oct. 21. The victim had been dead for more than two weeks.