"Fred Garvin: Male Prosititute"
Posted on 07/17/2008 8:49:47 AM PDT by Huntress
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- A police lieutenant in Daytona Beach was fired over accusations that he threatened slower emergency response times if he was not given complimentary specialty Starbucks coffee drinks.
An internal police investigation found that Daytona Lt. Major Garvin received free coffee for about two years from a city Starbucks coffee store.
However, when recently denied free coffee from new management, Garvin allegedly told managers that he could change the police department's response time if they refuse to give him complimentary drinks.
Garvin is accused of saying, "If something happens, either we can respond really fast or we could respond really slow. I've been coming here for years and I've been getting whatever I want. I'm the difference between you getting a two-minute response time, if you needed a little help, or a 15 minutes response time."
However, when confronted about the comments, police said Garvin agreed to take a polygraph test.
When asked whether or not he threatened managers with adverse response times, Garvin responded, "no."
But polygraph test results suggested that the officer was lying, Local 6's Tarik Minor reported. Garvin was then fired.
Starbucks employees said Garvin visited the Starbucks store six times a day during his shifts and intimidated some workers during visits.
"I want somebody protecting my streets who is honest and trustworthy," Starbucks customer Adam Cuddy said. "So, if he is going to fail a polygraph, whether it is about coffee or anything, I don't know how comfortable I feel as a citizen being protected."
The investigation also revealed that Garvin requested the complimentary coffee even when he was not on duty.
Garvin was hired by the department in 1993.
Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
Foolish on both their parts.
Seems a pretty petty thing to ruin your career over.
Is there ANY chance he was joking?
“Man this extorted coffee tastes like pee “
Yup.
Maybe once it could be a joke, but not for two years.
It used to be cops on the beat grabbing an apple from a grocery store’s sidewalk display of produce, today it’s extorting free Starbucks coffee, tomorrow?
They’ll be expecting the coffee delivered to their homes before they have to get dressed for work.
And some people here wonder why so many people don’t trust “law enforcement officers”.
depends if the cops who worked for him liked him or not. they could be ecstatic and give the starbucks guy a medal. this boss does not sound like the best guy to work for.
That’s true.
To think that Starbucks was the only entity/person this guy extorted or bullied over the last 15 years is simply foolish.
Java Junkie
if i post a positive story about a cop, will it reverse the trend?
Remember in “Pope of Greenwich Village” when Paulie puts the horse physic in the bully cop’s drink?
HA-HA, WHAT AN IDIOT!
Got himself fired from a 90K a year (guessing) job over a lousy cup of coffee.
While in college, I had a senior seminar class in law enforcement. There was a ditzy girl in my class who could never grasp the concept of why it was wrong to accept free meals/coffee/etc. while on duty. She kept trying to compare the police to doctors and others that she said got “freebies.”
Of course, since she was a female, I’m sure she had no problem finding a job. God help those under her protection.
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Hey Adam, the police don't have a duty to protect you, they only have a duty to take a report after something has happened, and maybe arrest the bad guy if they can determine who it was.
You have the responsibility and authority to protect yourself.
I want someone protecting my streets who isn't going to Starbucks 6 times a day.
Abuse caffine much?
I didn’t REALLY think so, but it just seems like such a waste to throw away your career over something so trivial.
I can’t image a SANE or INTELLIGENT person doing such a...
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Sounds like there was only one fool, the cop.
A few bad apples is almost unavoidable.
What is more troubling is that it took 15 years to identify this petty(?) crook.
Where were all the other cops all this time?
"Fred Garvin: Male Prosititute"
"It's outrageous!" < /seinfeld >
GUARANTEED this ain’t the first time this “officer” has abused his office. “To protect and to serve” seems to sometimes become “to oppress and to be served”. Screening process may need to be tweaked a bit...
Colonel, USAFR
>>“Man this extorted coffee tastes like pee “
LOL!
It does seem trivial. Someone else had posted that this likely wasn't the only place he did this. He probably had a wider range of extortion activity.
There is a code of silence. They don't out the rats in their midst. And then they wonder why, like the moderate muslims, they are lumped together with the bad apples.
When I worked at convenience stores, 3rd shift, I always offered the police officers their coffee for free. I never had one accept that offer. I was actually very impressed by their professionalism in declining “perks.”
He’ll probably sue and get his job back because “he only did this thing because he was an addict and he had to support his habit”.
He’ll go into rehab, “get better”, and then demand to be returned to the force.
Who cares if he was “joking”? If thats his sense of humor then he needs to be fired anyway. Joke or not its not what we need.
Another fine Florida LEO walking in the footsteps of Gerard John Schaefer.
“So this assclown cop is willing to put Starbuck’s employee’s in danger for his 6 cup a day coffee habit?”
In addition, he probably revels in busting pot smokers and calls them lowlife drug addicts.
Redundant.
I can’t see that it would be worth my job for a cup of burnt coffee.
I’d make my own first.
Perks! HAH! I don’t who y’are, that’s just funny...
I thought polygraph test results weren’t legally grounds for anything in court.
No, I think the Starbucks manager was series :)
This is nothing compared to what he probably told Dunkin Donuts..
And a cheap bastard with severely impaired judgment. “Living on the arm” is one thing, but a Lt. blowing his career for a cappuccino...what an idiot. Makes me think there's more to this than just coffee, and failing the polygraph gave his department the opportunity it needed to dump a major walking liability; quick and clean.
Just another example of institutionalized extortion under cover of Police authority. Years ago when I worked at a restaurant, even retired police officers would insist upon and receive free meals. When a new manager came along and put a stop to it, he was intimidated, threatened and even had his tires cut.
They help the high school sports teams to win so they are given the benefit of the doubt or second chances when it comes to behavior and grades, boys will be boys, etc.
They graduate and find that the aggressive nature and burley build that served them so well in high school has very little practical uses in the real world other than to land them in jail or on a construction site.
So they become cops and continue doing what they have always done, threaten, intimidate and bully their way to get what they want. I am not surprised in the least.
And yes, I think there are good cops out there, but the bad ones tend to force the good ones in to early retirement.
The idiot agreeing to take the lie detector magic divining hocus-pocus test is the fool.
Thank the Lord we don’t have to rely on Police thugs for protection in this Republic.
I’m sure the new management could have afforded a free cup.
Isn’t 6 cups a day at Starbucks near $30? I’ve never had the stuff so I don’t know but I’ve been told it’s a habit-forming brew.
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