Baltimore Police Officer Previously Charged With Stealing Nearly $10K Allegedly Stole $1K In Informant Funds, Indictment Says

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A national expansive assemblage connected Friday returned a superseding indictment charging a Baltimore City Officer for the national complaint of theft of authorities spot and making mendacious statements to instrumentality enforcement.

The indictment alleges the serviceman stole $1,000 successful informant funds from the Baltimore Police Department.

Ethan Glover, 49, joined the Baltimore Police Department successful 2003 and became a Federal Task Force serviceman with the Drug Enforcement Administration successful 2013.

According to the indictment, Glover arranged to conscionable and speech accusation with a witnesser and Glover paid the witnesser $1,000 with funds from the department’s fiscal section.

The witnesser yet decided not to go a BPD Informant and returned the $1,000 to Glover. Instead of returning the wealth to the department, the indictment alleges Glover pocketed the money.

In an April indictment, Officials said helium stole nearly $10,000 from a duffel container afloat of cash successful a 2016 hunt and seizure operation.

In addition, prosecutors accidental helium lied to the FBI during an probe astir a seizure that had occurred with the officer-in-charge of BPD’s Gun Trace Task Force.

When questioned, Glover asked the interviewing cause however overmuch the arrestee “is saying is missing? Is it wealth oregon drugs? How overmuch did helium accidental helium had? A million?” oregon words to that effect. Glover told investigators that helium did not witnesser immoderate serviceman bargain wealth during this seizure. Glover besides stated that helium did not bargain wealth from this peculiar seizure oregon immoderate different case, saying, “I’ve ne'er stolen thing successful my life. Never wealth oregon drugs.”

The interrogation was voluntary, the indictment said.

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If convicted, Glover faces a maximum condemnation of 10 years successful national situation for theft of authorities spot and 5 years successful national situation for making mendacious statements to national instrumentality enforcement.