NASSAU-A corrections officer who forged a sick slip paid fines totaling $1,500 to avoid spending four months in prison.
Garenda Pinder, 25, gave himself an extra day off by altering a sick slip he’d received from the South Side Clinic on August 13, 2019.
Pinder had also missed work the day before and asked Dr. Mercianna Moxey to backdate the document.
He made the change himself after the doctor refused, the court heard.
Pinder’s supervisor had suspicions about the authenticity of the sick certificate and launched an internal investigation.
Once the investigation concluded, Corrections Commissioner Charles Murphy called police who arrested Pinder on Monday.
Pinder pleaded guilty to charges of forgery, possession of a forged document and fraud by false pretenses at his arraignment today.
Pinder now has a criminal record and he’s lost a job that he had for four years.
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