Prosecutors allege the officers were working as private security officers while on duty for their regular county shifts.
The officers, 13 who remain on the force and one who is retired, had their police powers suspended in April 2021, Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Aisha Braveboy and Police Chief Malik Aziz announced in a news conference.The men are accused of exploiting a Prince George’s County Police Department program known as secondary employment, which allows officers to earn additional income working security in their personal time.
These officers, prosecutors say, concealed overlapping secondary employment shifts from the police department. They provided security at more than 20 apartment complexes in the county, police officials said. According to two people with knowledge of the investigation who spoke on the condition of anonymity, they all worked for a fellow officer, Edward “Scott” Finn, who recently pleaded guilty to one count of federal tax evasion related to his security company Edward Finn Inc.
The case of the 14 officers indicted Thursday stemmed from the federal investigation into Finn’s finances, officials said. Information about the alleged secondary employment misconduct was brought to the internal affairs division in February 2021, police said. After an “extensive investigation” the case was sent to the State’s Attorney’s Office.The alleged officer misconduct occurred between January 2019 and March 2021, officials said.
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