Daytona's Finest
Policewoman Claudia Wright, 29, of Daytona Beach, Fla., might not be considered a model officer.
Police say Wright forged her grandmother's signature on a car loan. The grandmother, Annie Robinson, found out about the fraud when applying for a car loan herself.
Robinson co-signed on a car loan for her granddaughter in 2006, and, according to our source story, Wright tired of the car a year later and wanted to buy a Mazda CX-7, which sells for over $30,000 when fully loaded.
Investigators say Wright forged her grandmother's signature on loan paperwork and drove the CX-7 for a year. She returned the vehicle to the dealership and allegedly defaulted on payments in 2008. Robinson's name was still on the loan.
Annie Robinson applied for a car loan earlier this year and was declined because her credit rating was "poor". Robinson called an attorney and found out about the falsified signature on her granddaughter's loan. She went to Daytona Beach police and pressed charges.
Officer Wright is no stranger to controversy in Daytona Beach. In 2007, she made national headlines after using her Taser on a woman inside a retail store, even though the woman allegedly wasn't violent and was backing away from the officer. Then in 2009, Wright warned a Daytona Beach family, relatives of a friend, that they were the targets of a planned drug bust.
Another officer linked to the 2009 incident was fired, but Wright kept her job because she told the truth about her involvement in the case.
Wright has been on paid administrative leave since her grandmother pressed charges, and the Chief of Police says she will be fired in the next 30 days. She has been charged with three unnamed felonies, and the details of her arrest were not available from our source.
Strike Three: she's finally out.
Source: Daytona Beach News-Journal
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Posted by Mike from Dallas on August 4, 2010:
But surely all these issues were nothing more than just Bad Judgment*.
(*The 21st Century One-Excuse-Covers-All.)
Posted by Jim, Huntington Beach, CA on August 5, 2010:
Mike,
I always heard it as a "LAPSE" in judgement. Because "BAD" judgement means you actually engaged the ancillary organ just north of the standard brainstemmer's medulla oblangata.
But the point is well struck. Almost nobody has the moral priciples to stand up and just say "I messed up anymore".