JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A prominent member of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Motor Unit has been arrested after he claimed more than 200 hours of overtime for traffic enforcement shifts that he never worked, Sheriff T.K. Waters announced Thursday.
Waters acknowledged that during at least some of those false overtime claims, which totaled more than $14,000, Officer Christian Madsen was actually at the home of his supervisor, and the two had a romantic relationship.
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What investigators discovered
According to Waters, after getting a tip on Feb. 12 of this year, the Integrity Unit’s investigation focused on a period from Dec. 1, 2025, to Feb. 7, 2026, during which Madsen, 31, submitted overtime claims for traffic enforcement for over 200 hours that he did not work.
During the investigation, Waters said, integrity detectives learned that during some of the hours he claimed he was working, Madsen was actually at the home of JSO Chief of Patrol Support Jaime Eason — his boss.
“We started looking into it about three weeks ago, and we did find that he had traveled to her home during those overtime hours, and there was a relationship,” Waters said, later confirming that it was a romantic relationship. “It took three weeks of really hard work by these detectives, very in-depth work by these detectives to make a case, a very strong case to bring him to justice.”
Another officer arrested
Madsen has been charged with one count each of grand theft, organized fraud and official misconduct, which are all third-degree felonies, Waters said.
“The cumulative nature of Madsen’s conduct demonstrates a deliberate, ongoing course of criminal behavior rather than a reflection of (an) administrative error or isolated accident,” Waters said.
It marks the sixth JSO employee arrested this year: five officers and one corrections officer. JSO arrested seven employees in all of 2025.
“As I say all the time, our collective belief in openness, transparency and accountability outweighs personal allegiance to JSO employees, especially ones that violate the public trust,” Waters said. “As we have said many times before, no one is above the law.”
Madsen, who has been with JSO for more than 11 years, has been suspended, and Waters said JSO will seek his termination.
Records show Madsen had been at the center of eight internal affairs investigations, which include three officer-involved crashes that resulted in remedial training, two citizen complaints that were eventually thrown out, and a third citizen complaint and a workplace complaint that led to him receiving informal counseling.
Supervisor resigns position
Madsen’s supervisor, Jaime Eason, who in 2022 was the first woman appointed as chief over the entire patrol division, has resigned her current position as chief of patrol support, “after a long conversation in my office,” Waters said.
Waters said Eason, who started at JSO in 1999, is now going through an administrative process but declined to share further details about any possible punishment for Eason.
“I’m very disappointed. She knows that. We talked,” Waters said of Eason. “When someone messes it up, then we have to address it, so we’ve done that.”
He said they are still investigating whether Eason knew that Madsen was clocking overtime hours when the two were together.
Records show that Eason had been at the center of seven internal affairs investigations: four citizen complaints in which she was not found guilty of any wrongdoing, and three officer-involved car crashes for which she received retraining or informal counseling.
Ripple effect
J.D. Stronko, currently serving as the Commander of the Major Case Section, has replaced Eason as Chief of Patrol Support.
Cmdr. Scott Lundquist, who was the supervisor of the Specialized Patrol division where Madsen worked as a motorcycle officer, has been transferred to be the Commander of Patrol Service District 6.
Nicholas Damone Jr., who currently serves as the Lieutenant of the Intelligence Unit, has replaced Lundquist as the Commander of Specialized Patrol.
Jacob Vorpahl, who is currently serving as the Commander of Public Accountability Section, is take over as Commander of the Major Case Section for Stronko.
And Cmdr. Mike Silcox, who currently heads Patrol Service District 6, where Lundquist was transferred, will take over as Commander of the Public Accountability Section for Vorpahl.
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