OC Sheriff’s Department Investigating Internal Time-Off Scam

Orange County Sheriff's Department vehicles are parked outside the Saddleback Station in Lake Forest, Calif., on Sept. 14, 2020. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

The Orange County, California, Sheriff’s Department has opened an internal investigation into seven employees who allegedly used faked military documents as a way to get time off.

The department announced in a Sept. 11 news release that it suspected one deputy and six other employees, all of whom are military reservists, of submitting illegitimate military orders to the department that allowed them to get paid time off with the belief they were fulfilling their obligations as reservists.