(KRON) — A San Mateo County Sheriff’s Workplace deputy, who was one of many first individuals to talk up concerning the alleged poisonous work setting at the moment shrouding the company in scandal, was cleared of any wrongdoing by San Mateo County District Lawyer Steve Wagstaff after being arrested final month for timecard fraud. In an announcement Monday, Wagstaff stated “no crime was committed” by Deputy Carlos Tapia earlier than being arrested by fellow deputies.
On Nov. 12, Deputy Tapia, who can also be the president of the sheriffs’ union, was arrested on felony expenses of grand theft and acquiring cash by false pretenses for alleged timecard fraud occurring between Jan. 1 and Oct. 18. The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors known as the arrest one other instance of retaliation by embattled Sheriff Christina Corpus.
After being arrested, the sheriff’s workplace submitted Tapia’s case to the district legal professional’s workplace.
“Over the course of the following month the District Attorney’s Office conducted a thorough and detailed investigation into the allegations,” DA Wagstaff stated in an announcement Monday. “We have concluded based on the follow-up investigation that no crime was committed by Deputy Carlos Tapia, that the complete investigation showed that there was no basis to believe any violation of law had occurred, and finally that Deputy Tapia should not have been arrested.”
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The district legal professional’s workplace stated it performed interviews with a lot of individuals concerned within the deputy’s payroll, together with the appearing assistant sheriff who solely investigated the timecard allegations by the sheriff’s workplace in opposition to Tapia. The DA known as the appearing assistant sheriff’s investigation “extraordinarily limited” and didn’t “examine the accuracy of the allegations.”
Within the appearing assistant sheriff’s notes, in accordance with the DA, it was famous that extra work wanted to be carried out within the investigation. Nonetheless, with out additional investigation being performed, government management on the sheriff’s workplace directed Tapia to be arrested.
On the conclusion of the DA’s interview with the appearing assistant sheriff, the “Acting Assistant Sheriff repeated several times that the follow-up investigation definitively established that there is no case against Deputy Tapia and he is not guilty of any criminal conduct,” the DA’s workplace stated.
“Deputy Carlos Tapia did not commit grand theft, theft by false pretenses or any sort of timecard fraud,” DA Wagstaffe stated. “There were clerical errors in the manner in which work hours were coded but nothing showing criminal intent or criminal conduct. Additionally there was no monetary loss to the Sheriff’s Office by the miscoding.”
Tapia was arrested on the identical day {that a} scathing 400-page report was launched by the county’s impartial investigator, accusing Sheriff Corpus of abusing energy, making a poisonous work setting, retaliation, and having a romantic relationship with Assistant Sheriff Victor Aenlle. The county’s board of supervisors, the San Mateo County Deputy Sheriff’s Affiliation and the San Carlos Metropolis Council have known as on the sheriff to resign.
KRON4 has reached out to Sheriff Corpus for touch upon the district legal professional’s determination.
