We’re learning more about an officer charged with Grand Theft by his own department. West Palm Beach Police Officer Zachary Immler is accused of stealing $6,000 from the home of a suspect during a drug raid in October. Turns out the son of a former Boynton Beach police chief was behind a case that had the city of West Palm Beach pay out $140,000 to a suspect in 2012.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS 12) — His job was to protect the public, but West Palm Beach Police Officer Zachary Immler is accused of stealing thousands of dollars from the citizens he swore to protect. Now he is charged with Grand Theft.
Use of force investigations popped up nine different times in West Palm Beach Police officer Zachary Immler’s records. Eight of them were cleared, but in one of those investigations he’s accused of beating Attorney Stuart Kaplan’s Client Keenoen Stafenie in 2012.
“Officer Zachary Immler to his own admission said with a closed fist, he basically as a hammer came down and struck him [Stafenie] I think five or six times,” said Kaplan.