The Mobile County Sheriff is responding to allegations that a former sheriff’s sergeant charged with theft improperly padded his overtime pay.
“I was not correct when I said there is no way to cheat the system. I launched an investigation into Daniel Holifield’s overtime sheets, and I found there is a way to cheat the system. Daniel Holifield cheated the system.Daniel Holifield is already charged with theft and forgery. He is accused of forging signatures to obtain the titles to confiscated vehicles in the department’s impound yard.
District Attorney Keith Blackwood told FOX10 News that additional charges could be added if an investigation turns up evidence that Holifield intentionally claimed overtime he was not owed.“We deny that we have, either by oversight or otherwise, inaccurately reported any overtime,” he said. “Any overtime pay we have received, we have done the work. … We have no belief in any way that we have falsely submitted an overtime request.”last year, earning more than $237,000.
A sampling of Holifield’s time sheets for three months last year – April, May and September – reveal discrepancies on eight dates:April 22: One hour of overlap in which he logged both regular time and overtime. May 7: An overtime slip for eight hours of overtime under a program called Stone Gardens in which deputies work with the U.S. Border Patrol on interstate highways. The program did not operate on that day, according to the Sheriff’s Office.Sept. 19: One hour of overlap in which he logged both regular time and overtime.Sept. 21: Two overtimes slips with three overlapping overtime hours.
Blackwood said if prosecutors were to file charges related to the overtime, they would have to prove not just that there were discrepancies, but that Holifield acted willfully.
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