KEY WEST, Fla. — A longtime Florida Keys sheriff’s deputy who retired while under investigation was arrested by his colleagues on several felonies Thursday after detectives found that he falsified his work timesheet, his former employer alleges.

Sgt. Eric Mixon, a 53-year-old school resource officer for the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, “claimed full workdays for a substantial number of days in which he never left his home,” an agency news release states.

MCSO spokesperson Adam Linhardt said that agency investigators determined that after a “comprehensive review of his work-related activity and equipment, among other evidence.”

Mixon, who had served with the agency since 1995, now faces seven counts of official misconduct.

“I take officer integrity and fiscal responsibility very seriously and I am committed to being transparent when both positive and negative examples arise,” Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay said in the agency’s news release.

While Mixon was booked into an MCSO jail facility, it wasn’t immediately clear which one he was being held in Thursday evening. Additionally, information about an upcoming arraignment had not yet been posted to the MCSO jail roster.

Mixon is the second MCSO deputy arrested in March. Earlier in the month, Deputy Lamar Roman was arrested on computer crimes charges. That came after investigators accused the 28-year-old of misusing official databases to pursue a woman he had met on the set of the television show “Bad Monkey.”

The agency fired Roman.

Longtime Keys deputy arrested for clocking in on days ‘he never left his home,’ sheriff says

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