Keys jail deputy arrested for double-dipping job scam, sheriff’s office says

A Florida Keys jail deputy was arrested on a warrant for grand theft after her bosses said she got a job in Palm Beach County while on sick leave from the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.

Jasmyn Parke Acevedo, 36, didn’t venture outside of her wheelhouse in getting another job while still on Monroe’s payroll, police said.

She went to work in Palm Beach as a jail deputy, too.

“She went out and got the exact same job that she was saying she was too sick to do,” said Adam Linhardt, the Monroe sheriff’s office spokesman. “It’s an egregious case.”

Acevedo was arrested June 19 and released early the next day after posting a $2,500 surety bond, according to Palm Beach County Sheriff’s records.

Palm Beach County did not post her mug shot online.

Acevedo directed questions from a reporter to her attorney.

Griska Mena, a staff attorney at the South Florida Police Benevolent Association, wouldn’t comment on the case, citing the pending investigation.

“She hasn’t had her due process yet,” Mena said.

MCSO hired Acevedo on Dec. 11, 2017, as a detention deputy. She started taking sick leave on Jan. 27, 2020.

In February, MCSO said it learned she was working for Palm Beach County while on leave. Between Jan. 27 and Feb. 18, MCSO paid her $1,950.

At the same time, she got hired by PBSO. Neither agency knew this at the time, Linhardt said.

“Acevedo was required to tell the MCSO that she was seeking employment with another agency and did not,” Linhardt said.

Acevedo soon after decided she was too sick to work at the Palm Beach County jail either and filed for workers’ compensation, “thus defrauding both agencies at the same time with the same ruse,” Linhardt said.

Acevedo has been placed on unpaid administrative leave pending an Internal Affairs and criminal investigation.

Monroe Sheriff Rick Ramsay notified Acevedo this week that he intends to fire her, Linhardt said.

Acevedo will return to Monroe County to face the grand theft charge.

At MCSO, she earned $53,322 a year.

This story was originally published June 23, 2020 at 5:20 PM.

Gwen Filosa

Miami Herald

Gwen Filosa covers Key West and the Lower Florida Keys for FLKeysNews.com and the Miami Herald and lives in Key West. She was part of the staff at the New Orleans Times-Picayune that in 2005 won two Pulitzer Prizes for coverage of Hurricane Katrina. She graduated from Indiana University.