{"id":447431,"date":"2026-08-29T18:16:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T18:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/447431\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T18:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T18:16:22","slug":"oakland-police-officer-accused-of-38000-in-wage-theft-after-timecard-audit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/447431\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland police officer accused of $38,000 in wage theft after timecard audit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/tag\/oakland-police-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Oakland police sergeant<\/a> is accused of $38,000 in wage theft after a timecard audit found \u201cirregularities,\u201d authorities announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Arias was charged Friday with a single felony count of grand theft of personal property after investigators claim he logged hours that he never worked for the department, court records show. Alameda County prosecutors claim the issue persisted from Oct. 5, 2023 through Jan. 3 of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Arias \u2014 who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastbaytimes.com\/2005\/09\/03\/eight-rookie-cops-join-oakland-force\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">started working for the department in 2005<\/a> \u2014 is currently a sergeant, though he has on occasion been an acting lieutenant, authorities said.<br \/>\nHe earned $163,628 in base bay in 2024, along with $64,484 in overtime pay and $38,342 in \u201cother pay,\u201d according to the most recent data available from the website Transparent California. He also received another $157,475 in benefits that year.<\/p>\n<p>The Oakland Police Department first discovered \u201cirregularities\u201d during an internal audit of the agency\u2019s time cards, officials said in an press release. Arias was was initially placed on \u201cmodified assignment\u201d when the issue was initially discovered, after which he was moved to administrative leave, the release said.<\/p>\n<p>In its announcement, the department claimed Friday it had already upped the frequency of its timecard audits, and that the agency is \u201ccollaborating with the city to implement improved technology for better tracking and to reduce the risk of future misconduct.\u201d It did not provide any details of how it was going about that work.<\/p>\n<p>Bay Area News Group staff writer Harry Harris contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>Jakob Rodgers is a senior breaking news reporter. Call, text or send him an encrypted message via Signal at 510-390-2351, or email him at jrodgers@bayareanewsgroup.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Oakland police sergeant is accused of $38,000 in wage theft after a timecard audit found \u201cirregularities,\u201d authorities&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[3130,143,145,144,2322,236,238],"class_list":["post-447431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-fraud","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-officer","tag-police","tag-theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}