The sergeant in charge of the Baltimore Police Department’s Marine Unit handed out overtime to officers who didn’t earn it, covered up crashes and environmental crimes his officers committed, and harassed and finally locked out a whistleblower, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court.
At the center of the suit, filed last Friday by Jeffry E. Taylor, an 18-year veteran of the department, is an allegedly botched effort to remove a cabin cruiser called “Danger Zone” from its mooring in Fells Point after a friend of a top police official complained the boat was “an eyesore.”
Taylor sued Sgt. Kurt Roepcke, who commands the Marine Unit, along with three former police commissioners, Major Frederick Gilbart and the city and state, saying they retaliated against him after he brought wrongdoing to the attention of police brass and the city’s inspector general.
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