An employee of the medical examiner’s office filled his pockets with hundreds of dollars he stole from people whose deaths he was assigned to investigate in Florida and New York City.
Darrell Fernando Reid Jr., 38, was arrested last month for allegedly swiping multiple bank cards while working at two medical examiner’s offices over the past several years, according to court records obtained by the Miami Herald.
He allegedly used the information to transfer funds directly to his own account using the Cash App.
Reid’s alleged scheme backfired in October, when he had only been working as an investigator in the Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office for nine months.
The sticky-fingered employee is accused of writing down the Bank of America card information of a man who died while responding with nine other employees to a condominium in Coral Springs, where the owner of the card had been decomposing for two weeks.
The man’s daughter quickly discovered three “suspicious” transactions made after her father’s death — all of which were $150 Cash App payments Reid made to a woman he was dating, prosecutors allege.
The first payment was made just 90 minutes after investigators locked the front door of the condo and handed the key to the deceased’s daughter.
The bank card was also found by the daughter sitting on the kitchen counter, although investigators documented it as one of several contents found in the purse during the postmortem.
Darrell Fernando Reid is accused of stealing money from the person whose death he was assigned to investigate. Coral Springs Police
Further investigation revealed that Reid had allegedly swiped cards from at least three other deceased victims.
Reid was on the scene investigating the deaths of two different people in November and December 2022, one in Broward County and the other in New York City, where he worked as an investigator for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, state arrest warrants.
When he was not at the scene of the third victim’s death investigation, Reid is accused of lifting the victim’s debit card information while rummaging through Broward County case files.
Reid is accused of stealing information from death case files that he was not at the scene of. Google Maps
From 2020 to November last year, Reid packed his Cash App with 27 payment sources, including 25 debit and credit cards and two Cash App cards, although it’s unclear how many were allegedly swiped.
“An investigation into additional card account holders is ongoing and subpoenas have been served on several banking institutions,” Reid’s warrant states.
Reid is charged with three counts of fraudulently using personal identification information of a deceased person and fraudulently using a credit card.
He resigned from the Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office on Friday after serving as an investigator since April 2023.
The Post has contacted the New York Office of the Chief Medical Examiner about Reid’s employment.
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