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Police officer arrested for embezzlement
Fairfax County Police Officer Mark Ours, the school resource officer assigned to Herndon Middle School, was arrested Jan. 28 for embezzlement.
A press release said the arrest came after an investigation into alleged false reporting of hours on attendance records. Ours, who has been assigned to the Reston District Station, was charged at police headquarters and transported to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center.
Public Information Officer Eddy Azcarate said the charges mean a likely falsification of time cards that are submitted to the county for payment.
“This has been a fairly long investigation,” he said. “Any person at any business, any job or any place may take five minutes here and there, this obviously was more,” he said, though the department will not release the amount of embezzlement as it is an ongoing investigation.
The police department would not typically release information regarding embezzling charges, but Ours' position as a police officer warranted a release, Azcarate said. The last time a Fairfax County police officer was arrested was in December 2006, for a DWI.
Ours, 39, is a 10-year veteran of the county police department.
While the embezzlement charges will continue through the court system, the police department will conduct a parallel internal investigation, Azcarate said. Ours has been placed on paid administrative leave pending the internal investigation.
Azcarate was not sure whether another officer would be immediately assigned to Herndon Middle School in the meantime.
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