A federal judge in Boston has resentenced former Boston Police Captain Richard Evans to one year and one day in prison for his role overseeing a long-running overtime fraud at the department’s evidence warehouse, closing a legal loop that started with his 2024 conviction and an appellate ruling last year.
U.S. District Judge Myong J. Joun handed down the year-and-a-day term at a resentencing hearing and reduced Evans’s supervised release to one year, according to the Boston Herald. Evans told the court he was “deeply ashamed and embarrassed for my conduct,” the outlet reported.
Appeals Trimmed Federal-Theft Counts
In July 2025 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit threw out Evans’s convictions under the federal-programs-theft statute and sent the case back for resentencing, finding the government had not proved that the statutory $10,000 federal-benefit threshold was met. The panel left his wire-fraud convictions in place, which meant those remaining counts would anchor the district court’s resentencing, according to the First Circuit.
Conviction And Original Sentence
A federal jury convicted Evans in March 2024 on wire-fraud and related charges after a multi-year investigation into overtime practices at the Evidence Control Unit, following his March 2021 indictment. On Oct. 24, 2024 he initially received one year and one day in federal prison, two years of supervised release, an order to pay $154,249.20 in restitution and a $15,000 fine, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Forfeiture And Apology
At the resentencing hearing, defense attorney Martin Weinberg told the court that Evans had forfeited a pension worth roughly $1.25 million and urged the judge to consider his decades of service in weighing the new sentence. Evans again apologized in court and said he was ashamed of his actions, according to the Boston Herald.
How The Scheme Worked
Prosecutors said officers assigned to the Evidence Control Unit routinely claimed four-hour “purge” overtime shifts while actually working far less, and that alarm and payroll records showed the evidence warehouse was often locked during the hours they billed. The broader probe has resulted in charges or guilty pleas for more than a dozen current and former Boston police officers, according to WCVB.
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