A Memphis police lieutenant is on paid administration leave “due to allegations stemming from an embezzlement investigation,” the Memphis Police Department said Monday.
Michael McCord, 49, who was working out of the South Main Station, was relieved of duty with pay Thursday, the Police Department said in a statement.
The department said he has been an employee since 1990, though news reports from 2007 state he was fired that year — then hired in nearby Millington, Tenn. — for signing papers falsely indicating an officer was in court. That came less than two months after he and several other Memphis officers became the subject of brutality complaints by owners and patrons of the Nappi By Nature salon on Elvis Presley Boulevard in south Memphis.
Because the investigation is active, the Police Department declined to release further details on how much money was purportedly taken.