Sheriff T.K. Waters announces the arrests of three officers on charges of filing false overtime claims. At his sideis Undersheriff Shawn Coursey. | Jacksonville Sheriff's Office
Published on April 9, 2026 at 3:15 pm
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Three more Jacksonville police officers have been arrested on charges of padding overtime.
Sgt. Michael Rourke and officers Christopher Sosa and Dylan Bostick were charged with fraud and grand theft, Sheriff T.K. Waters said Thursday.
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The three officers had 10 to 17 years on the job. They filed more than $33,000 in false overtime, some of it funded by Florida Department of Transportation grants that will have to be paid back, Waters said.
The investigation showed that Rourke got $4,600 for overtime for 51 hours of work that he did not do between Dec. 1 and Feb. 7. Bostick got $18,000 in overtime for 243 hours of work claimed from Dec. 1 to Feb. 23. And Sosa earned over $10,700 in overtime for 147 hours of work he claimed between Dec. 9 to Jan. 23, Waters said.
The investigation was a continuation of one that ended Feb. 25 with the arrest of former officer Christian Madsen after more than $14,000 in falsified overtime was filed, police said.
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Rourke was suspended March 12. Sosa was suspended March 3, the same day that Bostick resigned, Waters said. The agency will seek to fire Rourke and Sosa, he said.
It does not appear that any of the officers were working together to file false overtime, Waters said.
“These guys had knowledge that they could do this, and they were taking advantage of the system,” Waters said during a news conference. “Now when they work these types of jobs, they will have to report to an on-duty supervisor, who will have to lay eyes on them, and that is going into policy as we speak.”
“This was a difficult situation,” the sheriff said. “Unfortunately, you trust people to do what you hire them to do, and unfortunately, this time, they weren’t doing what was supposed to be done and there was a breakdown. There won’t be a breakdown in the future.”
The arrests bring the total officers arrested this year by the Sheriff’s Office to five, with four others arrested by other agencies.
