Officer acquitted in the overtime pay case
The first officer to stand trial in the overtime case was acquitted of forgery and stealing.
What happened
In 2017 four St. Louis officers were charged with forgery and stealing. Prosecutors said they had claimed overtime for overnight hours they did not work early that year, and police had watched the officers’ homes to build the case.
The outcome
The first officer’s case was tried before a judge in May 2018. The judge found that the evidence did not prove forgery beyond a reasonable doubt, and acquitted him of both charges.
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Photograph: Metropolitan Police Department headquarters, St. Louis, Missouri by Paul Sableman, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; cropped.
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