University Transportation and Parking Services is investigating an allegedly fraudulent parking citation activity by one of their employees, said Ronald Grant, associate vice president of Business Operations. John Hamrick, an investigator with the Department of Public Safety, is in charge of the case.

“He hasn’t given me anything yet and he’s still conducting the investigation,” Grant said.

The complaint alleges that the employee placed a parking ticket they received on another individual’s car. After the employee realized their actions had been discovered, according to the complaint, they allegedly erased the citation from the computer system completely. –

The complaint also claims that the UTAPS employee does this on a regular basis.- The State Hornet received an e-mail complaint regarding the employee.-The e-mail was also sent to Sacramento News & Review and Sacramento State President Alexander Gonzalez. – The investigation of the complaint began more than three weeks ago.

“My office received a report of impropriety regarding a UTAPS employee,” said Police Sgt. Kelly Clark.-“The exact circumstances are what we are looking into.-The information came into our office and we assigned a police investigator to look into it as we do with any investigative complaint.”

The investigating officer has spoken with Nancy Fox, UTAPS director, and she and her staff have been very cooperative, Clark said. Fox was not in her office last week and was unavailable for comment.

“There is no indication of any improper conduct at this time,” Clark said.- “A case of this nature typically doesn’t take that long to resolve if we are able to speak with all the parties involved.”

Though Grant had hoped the case would be closed by Dec. 2, the completion of the investigation may have slowed due to the Thanksgiving break, Clark said.

“All I can say is that we are looking into the incident at this time,” he said.-

Police reports are posted to the Sac State Web site but the information of this case will not be released until the investigation is completed.

If the actions of the UTAPS employee in question are found to be criminal in nature the information will be released at that time, Grant said.

For more information about University Police visit www.csus.edu/police.

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