LARGO - For the third time in the past two years, a Pinellas County Sheriff's Office employee has been arrested for allegedly submitting bogus overtime slips.
Detectives arrested child protection investigator Regina Booz-Bostick on Wednesday afternoon. She was booked into the Pinellas County Jail on a grand theft charge.
Sheriff's spokesman Mac McMullen said Booz-Bostick, 40, was arrested after an investigation showed she submitted more than $1,000 in false overtime claims. A five-year agency veteran, Booz-Bostick was placed on paid administrative leave after her arrest, McMullen said.
In May 2003, a corrections lieutenant at the county jail was arrested on suspicion he faked $8,400 in overtime and sick pay for himself and a co-worker. Both resigned. The lieutenant pleaded guilty to the charge and was sentenced to 18 months' probation.
In November 2002, a sergeant was arrested on charges of submitting nearly 200 false overtime slips totaling more than $16,000. He resigned and later was ordered into a pretrial intervention program, which he completed.
