A former police officer with the Department of Veterans Affairs has been sentenced to one year in federal prison for striking a homeless man with his baton roughly 45 times within a minute at the ...

Captain Gabriel Garcia, who has served with the department since 2007, is accused of fraudulently obtaining a 100% VA disability rating through a years-long scheme orchestrated by allegedly corrupt VA ...

The arrest followed an investigation by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs ... is betrayal of the badge and everything this department stands for," Haines City Police Chief Jay Hopwood ...

The police department said Capt. Gabriel Garcia was arrested by federal authorities on Thursday following an investigation led by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Office of the ...

A Haines City police captain was arrested for defrauding the government to obtain Veterans Affairs (VA ... García's arrest a "betrayal of the badge and everything this department stands for ...