A Miami Police Department (MPD) officer has been fired after allegedly logging nearly 100 hours of fake overtime last summer.
Last June, an MPD sergeant filed a complaint with the department’s internal affairs unit alleging that officer Erick Hernandez logged 10 hours of off-duty work at a Home Depot within the City of Miami — while he was actually more than a dozen miles away at his home in Broward County. Internal affairs launched a three-month investigation into Hernandez and found this was just one of many instances in which the officer allegedly logged bogus overtime hours for shifts he never worked, ultimately collecting more than $5,000 for 99.14 hours of unworked time.
Following the probe, internal affairs investigators recommended that the city terminate Hernandez; they noted a “concerning pattern of behavior of similar nature” in his past. (New Times has requested Hernandez’s employment file)…