Cop Fired for Demanding Free Coffee

[hackattack]

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (July 18) - An internal affairs report says a Daytona Beach police officer demanded free coffee and tea from a Starbucks and threatened employees with slower emergency response times if they refused.

Lt. Major Garvin, a 15-year veteran, was fired July 8. According to the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Chief Mike Chitwood says Garvin recently failed a polygraph test that he insisted on taking.

The coffeehouse's employees claim that since June 2007, Garvin had visited the store as many as six times a night while on duty. Besides demanding free drinks, workers complained that Garvin also cut in front of paying customers.
A telephone listing for Garvin could not be found.

[Willie Bee]

Can't help but wonder who else he's been shaking down. Hard to believe this was his only offense, probably just the tip of the iceberg.

[SBR Lou]

Alright sounds like a total sleazeball, but 5 years away from his pension is this really something they can FIRE him over?

[Willie Bee]

Alright sounds like a total sleazeball, but 5 years away from his pension is this really something they can FIRE him over?

Sure, why not? They can give you a dishonorable discharge and take away your pension 24 hours before your final day in the military for something like a DUI, no difference here. Besides, I'm betting there were other incidents that came out in the investigation, plus who knows if his supervisor brought it up at some point and told him to cut it out.

[daggerkobe]

Hope he raided the tip jars too. Starbucks is legalized highway robbery.

[pico]

all cops do that. dirty pigs

[swede96]

Hope he raided the tip jars too. Starbucks is legalized highway robbery.

[Brady2Moss]

All these crooked cops on power trips make me sick.