JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A police officer with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office was arrested on charges of official misconduct and grand theft, Undersheriff Nick Burgos announced Thursday.
Officer Donzalo Solomon, 44, was booked at 11:48 a.m. Thursday into the Duval County jail on the two third-degree felony charges and bonded out about an hour later, according to online jail records.
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According to Burgos, Solomon wasn’t showing up to provide services for a private security company. According to the Sheriff’s Office, officers can have secondary employment opportunities.
The arrest report said Soloman was hired to work private security for Breakers Apartments on the Westside. He would document hours that he did not work, claiming around $1,000 of paid hours, the report stated.
Solomon, who has been with JSO for nearly six years, has been suspended, and the sheriff will seek termination upon the conclusion of the case, Burgos said.
The JSO Integrity Unit is coordinating with the State Attorney’s Office in the investigation.
In February, Denis Hampton, a 5-year veteran, was arrested for the same incident. Hampton would document unworked private security hours at various apartment complexes and get paid.
JSO placed Hampton under surveillance and issued an arrest. The arrest report said he billed the complex owners for 16 hours and only worked four. The report did not indicate how much money was made for the work he did not complete.
Hampton’s case went into retrial diversion, and after he completed the program in May, his charge was dropped. JSO intended to fire Hampton, but he resigned in March following the incident.