San Mateo County officers are questioning whether or not Millbrae Police Chief Eamonn Allen resides inside town’s police station throughout the week and repeatedly commuting residence to Idaho, based on a report from ABC 7. Six different sergeants additionally reportedly reside someplace aside from California.
San Mateo County Board President David Canepa this week known as for an investigation into Allen, who’s allegedly residing in Idaho whereas sleeping throughout the workweek within the Millbrae bureau, ABC7 reported Friday.
Patches faraway from Millbrae police officer’s uniforms sit within the locker room on the Millbrae Police Division in Millbrae, Calif., on Saturday, March 3, 2012. At midnight on Sunday, March 4, the San Mateo County Sheriff’s workplace will take over policing town of Millbrae. Nobody was laid off whereas some officers left. In all 18 employees accepted jobs with the sheriff’s workplace. (John Inexperienced/Workers)
The TV station shared pictures, reportedly from a fireplace inspector, displaying illegally constructed residing quarters with beds. A notice from the inspector, who reportedly visited the station on Tuesday, asks the police station to “please stop using rooms for sleeping.”
A photograph additionally appeared to indicate a half-empty half-gallon bottle of liquor sitting on a shelf of one of many suspected residing quarters. To be able to have residing quarters within the station, the police division must get sure permits, modify the development of the rooms and move inspection, ABC 7 reported.
The hearth inspector reportedly couldn’t entry one of many residing quarters as a result of it was locked with an “in use” signal exterior the door, based on ABC 7.
Millbrae contracts with the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Workplace for its police companies. Allen was appointed as chief by former Sheriff Christina Corpus, who supervisors eliminated this month after a decide dominated she violated conflict-of-interest legal guidelines and retaliated in opposition to deputies. Her elimination by the board — a primary within the state — capped off months of investigations into complaints of an alleged inappropriate relationship she had together with her chief of employees, and allegations she used racist and homophobic slurs within the office.
A spokesperson for the sheriff’s workplace didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark Saturday.
In line with ABC 7 reporter Dan Noyes, six different sheriff’s sergeants reside in different states, together with Idaho, Nevada, Texas and Tennessee. This consists of two sergeants who work on the division’s bomb squad, which requires them to have the ability to reply to an emergency inside an hour, Noyes stated.
If discovered to be true, the allegations in opposition to Allen wouldn’t be the primary time a public worker has confronted penalties for setting up unlawful residing quarters in authorities buildings.
In 2024, a former Caltrain director, Joseph Navarro, and a Caltrain contractor, Seth Worden, bought caught constructing their very own residences in Burlingame and Millbrae prepare stations.
Navarro acquired 120 days in jail and two years probation for embezzling almost $40,000 to construct his secret Burlingame prepare station condo, which was geared up with a bed room, workplace, gymnasium, rest room with a bathe, and different furnishings, equivalent to a settee and low desk. Navarro additionally reportedly moved his ex-girlfriend into the residence for a short while throughout his years-long keep within the station. A jury discovered him responsible of 1 felony rely of misuse of public funds.
Worden acquired 60 days in jail and one yr probation, and was ordered to pay again over $8,000 in restitution for his hand in serving to assemble the residences. He accepted a plea deal for a lesser misdemeanor embezzlement cost in trade for testifying in opposition to Navarro.
