Airport Police Officer Held in Embezzlement
A member of the Los Angeles International Airport’s independent police force was arrested Friday and charged with embezzling up to $5,000 in public funds and falsifying public records.
Special Officer Gail Marie Brown, 34, who has been on administrative leave since an investigation of the 206-member Airport Security Bureau was concluded by the Los Angeles Police Department last July, allegedly took the money by falsely claiming that she earned it in overtime work between June and August, 1984, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.
The airport staff worked many extra hours during that period of time to accommodate heavy Olympic Games traffic.
Brown is the first person formally charged as the result of the investigation, which LAPD spokesmen had said revealed evidence of grand theft, embezzlement, extortion and conspiracy to commit bribery.
Brown was also charged with one count of falsifying public records, district attorney’s spokesman Al Albergate said. Bail was set at $1,500.
The district attorney’s office is continuing its own review of the matter, Albergate said.
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