Travis Haecker is accused of withdrawing cash and making unauthorized purchases from CC Citizens Police Academy Alumni Inc.<\/p>\n
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 A former Corpus Christi police officer pleaded not guilty Thursday for misusing nonprofit funds from the CC Citizens Police Academy Alumni Inc. for personal expenses.<\/p>\n
Travis Haecker is awaiting a trial date in connection with allegations that he withdrew $1,200 in cash through six ATM transactions, failed to deposit donated funds promptly, and made unauthorized debit card purchases at a vape shop and a gambling website.<\/p>\n
Detectives said Haecker was the only police officer authorized to possess a debit or credit card linked to the nonprofit\u2019s Value Bank account.<\/p>\n
According to an affidavit obtained by 3NEWS, the funds were originally collected during a motorcycle rodeo tied to the Texas Police Games.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Organizers planned to use the remaining proceeds to create a scholarship honoring fallen officer Vicente Ortiz, a 15-year veteran of the Corpus Christi Police Department who died in 2024 while assisting with traffic control during a funeral procession.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The CC Citizens Police Academy Alumni Inc. is a nonprofit of graduates from the department\u2019s Citizens Police Academy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It supports law enforcement-related community programs and operates independently of the police department, though some officers serve as liaisons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Travis Haecker is accused of withdrawing cash and making unauthorized purchases from CC Citizens Police Academy Alumni Inc.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-211493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}