After a district legal professional’s announcement Monday {that a} San Mateo County sheriff’s deputy accused of timecard fraud wouldn’t be charged, Sheriff Christina Corpus stated that an “internal review” of the matter would happen.
“While the criminal investigation has concluded, a separate internal review will take place, which is standard protocol when the arrest involves an employee,” Corpus stated in a press release Monday afternoon. “The internal review will be conducted by an independent third-party investigator to ensure it is a fair process.”
The San Mateo County District Legal professional’s Workplace introduced earlier within the day that the deputy taken into custody final month for alleged timecard fraud shouldn’t have been arrested within the first place and that an investigation into the matter by the Sheriff’s Workplace had been “extraordinarily limited.”
Deputy Carlos Tapia was arrested Nov. 12 on suspicion of felony grand theft by false pretenses, and was later launched on bond.
Carlos Tapia, president of the San Mateo County Deputy Sheriffs Affiliation, speaks at a Sept. 17, 2024, information convention on the County Middle in Redwood Metropolis. The county District Legal professional’s Workplace concluded that Tapia shouldn’t have been arrested when he was taken into custody final month for alleged timecard fraud. (Alise Maripuu/Bay Metropolis Information)
On Monday, San Mateo County District Legal professional Stephen Wagstaffe stated his workplace spent the previous month reviewing the case and located there have been clerical errors in the best way work hours had been coded, however nothing that confirmed felony intent by Tapia.
Tapia shouldn’t have been arrested, and the case is closed, the district legal professional stated.
Tapia is the president of the San Mateo County Deputy Sheriff’s Affiliation union and has been a vocal critic of embattled Sheriff Christina Corpus’s administration.
The union together with the San Mateo County Group of Sheriff’s Sergeants stated Tapia’s arrest was retaliation for being a whistleblower.
Corpus has come underneath fireplace in latest months for allegedly retaliating towards Sheriff’s Workplace workers, utilizing racist and homophobic slurs and giving an excessive amount of energy to her civilian chief of employees Victor Aenlle, who impartial investigator and retired Choose LaDoris Cordell present in her 400-page report back to be in an inappropriate private relationship with the sheriff — an accusation Corpus denies.
“The Acting Assistant Sheriff’s investigation was extraordinarily limited and did not involve necessary follow-up investigation to examine the accuracy of the allegations.”
District Legal professional Steve Wagstaffe
Earlier this month, the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors voted to maneuver ahead with a constitution modification that may enable them to take away her from workplace.
The sheriff has repeatedly refused requires her resignation which have come from the board and native, state and federal leaders akin to U.S. Reps. Kevin Mullin and Anna Eshoo, state Sen. Josh Becker, and Assemblymembers Marc Berman and Diane Papan.
The Sheriff’s Workplace had arrested Tapia on suspicion of grand theft and acquiring cash by false pretenses, alleging timecard theft occurred between Jan. 1 and Oct. 18. The Sheriff’s Workplace submitted the case to the district legal professional for evaluate and prosecution the following morning, Wagstaffe stated.
“It is my conclusion that the evidence establishes without question that Deputy Carlos Tapia did not commit grand theft, theft by false pretenses or any sort of timecard fraud,” Wagstaffe stated Monday.
