{"id":96887,"date":"2025-12-16T16:09:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T16:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/96887\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T16:09:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T16:09:29","slug":"ex-sdpd-officer-pleads-guilty-to-taking-4k-from-school-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/96887\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-SDPD officer pleads guilty to taking $4K from school program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SDPD-Patch.webp?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765901369_575_SDPD-Patch.webp\" alt=\"Crime scene\" class=\"wp-image-325548\"  \/><\/a>A close-up photo of a San Diego Police officer. (File photo courtesy of the San Diego Police Department)<\/p>\n<p>A former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.gov\/police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego law enforcement<\/a> officer pleaded guilty to taking funds from a police program dedicated to school safety and using the money on personal expenses.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say Curtis Doll, 42, took around $4,000 from the police department\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.gov\/police\/community\/juvenile-services\/safety-patrol\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">School Safety Patrol Program<\/a>, a crossing guard program aimed at helping elementary school students safely cross the street at uncontrolled intersections near schools throughout the city.<\/p>\n<p>Doll then used the funds on a variety of personal purchases such as clothing and car tires, among other items that were bought with money taken from a bank account used to fund the program, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators served a warrant at Doll\u2019s home last year and on Friday, he pleaded guilty to the lone felony count filed against him, fraudulent appropriation by a public officer.<\/p>\n<p>SDPD Lt. Cesar Jimenez, the department\u2019s public information officer, confirmed Monday that Doll is no longer a member of the department.<\/p>\n<p>Doll is slated to be sentenced next month.<\/p>\n<p>The fraudulent appropriation by a public officer count carries a maximum possible penalty of three years in custody. Doll\u2019s guilty plea does not involve a stipulated sentence, but a District Attorney\u2019s Office representative said the sentence will involve at minimum two years of formal probation and full payment of restitution.<\/p>\n<p>City News Service contributed to this article. <\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A close-up photo of a San Diego Police officer. (File photo courtesy of the San Diego Police Department)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[53106,53107,38778,74,76,75,53108,53109],"class_list":["post-96887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-curtis-doll","tag-embezzlement","tag-guilty-plea","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-police-officer","tag-school-safety-patrol-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96887","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=96887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}