Lazy.. He probably spent that time on couch playing PS3 or something.
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/11/nopd_officer_accused_of_writin.htmlNOPD officer accused of writing bogus seat-belt tickets pleads guilty
A 22-year veteran New Orleans police officer pleaded guilty Monday to four counts of malfeasance, receiving a five-year suspended sentence for writing hundreds of phantom seat-belt violations while allegedly racking up overtime pay. Retired Officer Glenn Gross, 44, wrote 215 bogus tickets while working a special overtime shift dedicated to traffic safety and financed by a federal grant, according to police Superintendent Ronal Serpas.
In June, the department received a grant that pays for overtime for officers who enforce seat-belt laws. But instead of pulling over real people, Gross, who worked in the NOPD's information technology unit, wrote up tickets to pretend motorists, officials said.
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/11/st_charles_sheriffs_deputy_arr.htmlSt. Charles Sheriff's deputy arrested for issuing bogus traffic tickets
A St. Charles Parish Sheriff's deputy was arrested Wednesday after an investigation revealed that he had been issuing false seat belt citations to motorists he never stopped over a period of several months and claimed overtime pay for doing it.
William S. Marciante Jr., of Luling, a five-year veteran of the department, was booked with 27 counts of malfeasance in office, 21 counts of injuring public records, 21 counts of forgery and six counts of payroll fraud. He remained in the St. Charles Parish jail with bond set at $50,000 by Judge Emile St. Pierre.
Marciante has been fired.
Authorities say that between February and May, Marciante wrote a total of 21 citations for seatbelt violations to unsuspecting motorists who were never stopped. Evidence from Marciante's patrol vehicle and his dashboard camera shows that none of the traffic stops took place. Furthermore, Capt. Pat Yoes said, Marciante did not work during the times he issued the citations and submitted for overtime pay. More than 12 cases have been confirmed through handwriting analysis that Marciante forged signatures on the citations.
Yoes, the Sheriff's Office spokesman, said investigators believe that Marciante randomly chose some of his victims as they drove past him.
"We don't really know how he did it," Yoes said. "But it was random. It was evenly distributed among men and women, black and white."
http://www.wafb.com/story/19963928/officer-accused-of-issuing-forged-summons-faces-more-chargesOfficer accused of issuing forged summons faces more charges
A Baton Rouge police officer was arrested Wednesday and accused of falsifying a misdemeanor summons.
This is the second time in less than two months that Derek Jason Burns, 29, has been accused of injuring public records, forgery and malfeasance in office.
Burns was arrested Sept. 6 and accused of falsifying four misdemeanor summons. He was booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on four counts each of injuring public records, forgery and malfeasance in office.
Police administrators would not speculate why Burns allegedly wrote the bogus summonses. However, officers are often paid overtime to appear in court for the summonses that they write.
Police Chief Dewayne White has said the Police Department’s Internal Affairs Division launched an investigation into Burns on July 3 after the officer’s supervisor noticed a summons Burns wrote that *just didn’t look right.* The investigation is ongoing, he said.
Investigators initially looked into that summons and a random sampling of four others, finding at least four of the five appeared phony, White said. The fifth summons is still being examined, the police chief said.
