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Miramar cop charged with stealing two bottles of liquor during investigation


|By Robert Nolin, Sun Sentinel
A Miramar police officer, patrolling with a citizen observer, has been charged with brazenly filching two bottles of scotch from three suspects.
Antonio Hester, 34, who has been with the department since 2006, was arrested Thursday and charged with petty theft, falsifying records and official misconduct. He was placed on unpaid leave and is under internal investigation, "which precludes the department from speaking further on the matter," spokeswoman Natasha Richardson said.
According to a five-page report by Sgt. Kevin Nosowicz, Hester was on duty May 14, 2013, with Casey Torres, a member of the city's Citizen's Police Academy, accompanying him.
Hester answered a theft call at a Walgreens on Southwest 101st Avenue, and tracked three female suspects to a nearby gas station, investigators said. He and Linkong Sherman, Walgreens loss prevention officer, took suspected stolen property from the women, including two bottles of Johnnie Walker Black Label.
One of the women, Zakia Branton, told Hester the liquor was hers and had been bought in Tampa. She and the other women were subsequently allowed to go.
When the liquor was scanned under the store's inventory system, it was shown not to have belonged to the store, Nosowicz reported. Walgreens assistant manager Heldy Barry told investigators Hester said that "he was going to take the alcohol because it did not belong to Walgreens."
Hester was then seen on store surveillance cameras leaving the manager's office with the two bottles of liquor. Sherman also watched him place the booze in the trunk of his patrol car, the sergeant said.
Torres, the citizen observer, said Hester told him "he had a lot of paperwork to complete" and would place the liquor into evidence. But Torres told investigators the officer did not stop at the police station, but went straight to a Citizen's Academy function.
Nosowicz said Hester filed a report stating he returned the liquor to Branton, but department records didn't back up that claim or show that the bottles were ever placed into evidence. Branton also told investigators she never got her liquor back.
The case was turned over to the Broward County Special Prosecutors Office, which after an investigation lasting more than a year, determined Hester should be charged.
Police reports don't mention whether the Johnnie Walker Black, which retails for around $28 for a 750-milliliter bottle, ever turned up.