New details emerged Monday about last week\u2019s arrest of a Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office reserve deputy who has been charged with official misconduct, forgery, scheme to defraud and grand theft.<\/p>\n
Joshua Marc Passman, 44, was fired last week after his arrest. According to a probable cause affidavit outlining the case against him, Passman faked his working hours to\u00a0be paid for time he wasn\u2019t on the job and to boost his eventual retirement check.<\/p>\n
Passman was originally hired by the Sheriff\u2019s Office in 2006 and rose to the rank of sergeant before leaving the agency in 2022 for a private sector job. He remained with BSO as a reserve officer.<\/p>\n
According to the affidavit, Passman submitted time sheets for 21 full working days throughout calendar year 2024, resulting in payments of about $3,200. The time sheets all bore the signature of a supervisor who told investigators he never saw the timesheets and never approved of them. The signature on the timesheets did not match the supervisor\u2019s signature, according to the report.<\/p>\n
Phone records show Passman was not in South Florida for some of the days he claimed to work, and was not in Broward County on some days he claimed to be attending meetings in Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n
\u201cA specific benefit of Passman\u2019s continued service with the Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office as a reserve deputy \u2026 allows him to fulfill service credit years necessary for vesting and eligibility under the Florida Retirement System,\u201d according to Detective Daniel Sanchez, writing in the probable cause document. \u201cThe charges being presented suggest that Passman\u2019s motive behind the actions detailed in this investigation was to accumulate sufficient service time through his misrepresented or inflated documentation to reach a threshold for monetary pension benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n
Attempts to reach Passman\u2019s lawyer on Monday, a holiday, were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n