Eighth Fort Worth Officer Indicted in Ticket Scandal

Investigators say officers sought to collect extra overtime pay by falsifying records to indicate that they had issued traffic tickets while working under a federal grant program.

May 24, 2012

May 24--FORT WORTH -- Another Fort Worth police officer has been indicted in a traffic ticket scandal.

Ronald Joseph Wigginton, 44, of Burleson was indicted Wednesday by a Tarrant County grand jury on 16 counts of tampering with a government record in an attempt to commit fraud, a state jail felony. He is also charged with one count of theft by a public servant, a third-degree felony.

Wigginton is the eighth Fort Worth police officer charged in the scandal. Investigators say officers sought to collect extra overtime pay by falsifying records to indicate that they had issued traffic tickets while working under a federal grant program.