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Posted by: Azya Thornton on Oct 23, 2024

A former Memphis Police Department officer is serving a six-month federal prison sentence for stealing $18,500 from CrimeStoppers and will have to pay $22,400 in restitution. Arica Hutchison pleaded guilty to defrauding the United States in June and was sentenced earlier this month. According to the Daily Memphian, Hutchison entered fraudulent data into the CrimeStoppers database while an associate posed as a tipster to receive the the reward. Hutchison accessed databases and provided her associate with tip numbers and suspect information about tips. Disciplinary records show she admitted to federal investigators in February that she illegally obtained CrimeStoppers funds. Hutchison joined MPD in 2007 and CrimeStoppers in 2018. “As far as we’re concerned, (in) 44 years, it’s never happened before,” David Wayne Brown, CrimeStoppers executive director, said. "I consider it an anomaly.”