Officer arrested for 215 counts of issuing bogus fines for traffic offences

New Orleans police officials announced minutes ago that they have booked a a 22-year veteran of the Police Department with 215 counts of injuring public records and a single count of malfeasance in office.

The investigation into Glenn Gross began when a police supervisor grew suspicious of him and reported his alleged misconduct to the Public Integrity Bureau, which investigates complaints against officers, according to the NOPD.

Gross, who works in the NOPD's information technology department, was writing bogus tickets for seat-belt violations, allowing him to collect extra pay, Superintendent Ronal Serpas said.

Rather than doing the work and writing up motorists who had violated the law, Gross wrote tickets to phantom motorists, officials said.

Officials said the investigation is continuing and that other officers, and possibly a supervisor, are also under scrutiny. They said they couldn't say how much overtime Gross collected as a result of the scam.

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