Posted on 10/26/2017 11:53:22 AM PDT by simpson96
A sheriff’s deputy in Florida, who was caught on home surveillance video last month reportedly stealing from a recently-deceased man, was arrested by authorities on Thursday.
Deputy Jason Cooke of the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office was charged with burglary and grand theft with a firearm, WPBF reported. He was released on house arrest after paying a $28,000 bond.
Cooke is accused of robbing a house that belonged to Moe Rosoff, an 85-year-old man who had injured himself in a blackout during Hurricane Irma and later died, ABC 10 News reported.
Rosoff’s family had reportedly asked authorities on Sept. 12 to do a welfare check on their father, who was braving the storm alone. Three deputies found the elderly man on the floor of his home and brought him to the hospital before he eventually died.
The family alleged that the accused deputy heard the garage entry code over his police radio and went to the victim’s house, knowing he wouldn’t be there, ABC reported.
Unbeknownst to the suspect, surveillance cameras at the house turned on when he entered, CBS 12 reported. The family later saw the video and turned it over to the police on Sept. 20.
They claim the deputy wandered around the house and stole money, jewelry and medication.
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What a scumbag
Bad, but is this much different that the estate tax, or so-called death tax?
Ghoul.......get a rope
Nice home.
Part of it, is the proliferation of cameras.
Ghouls are not fictional characters.
Protecting and Serving.
Sometimes we see things so stupid as to defy reason. Darwinism should have claimed him by now.
That is really low. Just wow.
None of this behavior is new, the only thing new is that there are a million times more cameras everywhere actually recording things. In the past this would have never been “solved”. And I’m betting, just like they say of everyone else, that this isn’t the first time that he’s done this, only the first time that he got caught. Should result in a review of every case that he’s ever had a finger on.
Yeah, how much has gone missing on his watch?
SEEK HELP
And God bless the man he brought in his patio furniture
Cameras everywhere but at the Mandala Bay in Vegas
Both are taking undue advantage of the dead. You don’t see the death tax as theft?
Al baby - talk to me!
I think what the cop did was far worse he broke the law i hate the death tax but it aint the same as what this yay hole did
According to the family, the suspect was placed on paid administrative leave, CBS 12 said.
Not much different than hanging around behind a bridge with a radar gun. He will go to jail because the county didn’t get a cut.
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