Full Notification

On May 1, 2013 an audit was conducted of the Lake County Sheriff’s Office Detective Bureau undercover operations fund. During that audit it was discovered that there was $2100 unaccounted for. That fund was last audited in December of 2012 and all monies in it were accounted for.

The funds are kept in a safe located within the detective’s bureau at the Sheriff’s Main Office. The persons with access to the funds are limited and strict procedures are in place, which require two signatures for assignment of the funds when needed for operational purposes.

Upon learning of the discrepancy between the last reported audit balance and current balance, Sheriff Rivero assigned his financial personnel to review the account for financial errors and instructed his command staff to secure an outside agency to conduct an internal affairs investigation.