Spanish Cop Sentenced After Gambling With Money He Stole From Crime Scene

A police force officer in Spain is away the ram for breaking the rattling rules he was supposed to uphold. Some may say his doom is lightsome compared to the crime, but any chance of a life inwards law of nature enforcement is over.

Last week, the Provincial Margaret Court of Alicante sentenced a member of the Civil Guard inward Kingdom of Spain to five months in prison house and a 10-month disqualification from office. The unnamed officer was found shamed of embezzling €9,000 (US$9,795) during an anti-drug performance and later gaming the money on toothed wheel at a local casino.

The incident dates rearwards to the summer of 2020, when the ship's officer discovered bags of ganja and the hard currency piece inspecting a truck during the operation. He reportedly succumbed to temptation and stashed the hard cash for himself.

Easy Money

Amid the chaos of the criminal offence view investigation, the ship's officer was entrusted with the seized items piece investigators poised evidence and gathered to a greater extent information. However, instead of safeguarding the money, he pocketed it.

He and then headed to a gambling hall well-nigh eighter hours later and smasher the toothed wheel tables. It proven to be a losing proposition as, according to court documents, he walked off empty-handed.

Unaware of the officer’s actions, authorities later requested the bring back of the seized items. When the officer handed o'er only the drugs and non the money, suspicion arose. Subsequently, the Civil Guard self-reported the incident to the Spanish people justice system, which readiness off an investigating into the peculation of public funds.

While local media initially reported that the authorities sought-after(a) nearly two years of imprisonment for the officer, an correspondence was reached. In interchange for reverting the money, which has reportedly already happened, he received a practically ignitor sentence. The five-month sentence was suspended as long as he doesn’t receive into discommode for the next two years.

The ruling isn’t final. Prosecutors could appealingness if they require to try to personnel the officer to drop clip behindhand bars.

When Good Cops Go Bad

The Spanish people officer isn’t the only when cop to proceed rascal – former Las Vegas police force ship's officer Caleb Rogers landed inward gaol for heists at trinity casinos. As he tried to get hold of downwards the sportsbook at the Rio in his endure heist, protection guards took him come out the like blitzing NFL linesmen going after a QB.

The Spanish people cop and Rogers are inward well(p) keep company of rotten cops. Another incident thousands of miles outside in Peru of late landed deuce officers inward jail.

Local media reported yesterday that two police officers are inwards custody for their roles in an assault on a Peruvian one-armed bandit parlor. They pretend upwards half of the squad that striking the locale finally summer and stole almost SOL29,000 (US$7,747).

Soon after that heist, investigators were able-bodied to enamour single of the crooks. He wasted no more clip inwards making a deal, identifying his threesome accomplices and explaining how the whole ordeal played out.

One of the officers was in point of surveillance inwards parliamentary law to spanking if any other officers were inwards the area. The other officer and the remaining deuce crooks entered the casino and orchestrated the robbery. All quatern at present human face charges of aggravated robbery.