4 reprimanded for taking nickels from Fla. highway
MELBOURNE, Fla. (AP) – About $70 in nickels is ending up costing three Brevard County Sheriff’s deputies a lot more.
The three deputies, along with one communications officer, have been reprimanded for collecting and keeping the nickels after an accident on Interstate 95 involving a truck en route from the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia.
The September crash happened just south of Scottsmoor with a truck headed for the Federal Reserve Bank in Miami. One person was killed and 3.7 million nickels spilled onto the roadway.
Most of the nickels had been picked up, but the Brevard employees admitted picking up more than 1,400 that were missed.
Two of the officers have resigned and a third was suspended without pay for two weeks and reassigned.
The communications officer was the only one not on-duty at the time; he was given a written letter of warning.