When a shooting occurred near the Lillie May Carroll Jackson School in March 2022, the Baltimore Police detective working the case asked for help of Lawrence Smith, the school police department’s liaison to the BPD.
“10-4, I will advise,” Smith wrote, cc’ing the e-mail to his chain of command. He submitted and received four hours of overtime pay for the task.
But investigators with the FBI probing Smith’s overtime pay found that the BPD detective never received any footage or assistance from Smith, according to new details included in unsealed court records.
Instead, Smith was at Dunbar High School, where he has been a championship-winning football coach, and then at home booking vacations for family and friends. In hundreds of instances, they found Smith was at Dunbar, on vacation, on a boat, shopping or at home when he was paid to be working.
Smith was indicted last month on charges of fraud and tax evasion, with federal prosecutors saying he stole $215,000 in overtime pay over a span of three-and-a-half years. The new records show he is accused of stealing more than 3,300 hours of pay that he did not earn, more than two-thirds of the time he said he worked.
Smith had regularly been…
