Overview
- A judge signed arrest warrants Tuesday for six current and former Metropolitan Police Department employees accused of collecting $441,137 in fraudulent overtime pay during 2024.
- Prosecutors say the six will face counts of first‑degree fraud, first‑degree theft, forgery and uttering as the case moves toward arrests, formal charging and pretrial proceedings.
- MPD’s Internal Affairs opened the probe after spotting irregular overtime submissions and investigators used body‑worn camera footage, radio and GPS logs, license‑plate‑reader records, travel documents and forensics to build the case.
- Officials allege the defendants forged supervisor signatures, abused administrative approval roles and claimed overtime for hours they were on leave or traveling outside the District.
- The alleged $441,000 is a small slice of MPD’s roughly $134 million in overtime last fiscal year, a structural pressure tied to staffing lows that officials say will shape oversight and prosecutorial review going forward.