"He told his physician he couldn't stand or sit without "significant pain," authorities say. Household chores were anything but routine. California Highway Patrol Officer Jordan Roy Lester claimed a medical retirement was the only recourse because of a debilitating injury, according to authorities. Then the department's internal affairs investigators observed Lester on property he'd newly purchased cutting down trees, stacking firewood and operating heavy machinery."
""We take workers' compensation fraud very seriously as it has an immediate and lasting financial impact on employers and delays medical care and financial assistance to employees legitimately injured at work," Sacramento County Dist. Atty. Thien Ho said in a statement. Ho added: "To have a peace officer commit this fraud is not only a violation of their duty to serve and protect with integrity, but it is also a violation of public trust.""
He told his physician he couldn't stand or sit without "significant pain." He claimed medical retirement due to a debilitating injury after 17 years with the California Highway Patrol. Internal affairs investigators observed him cutting down trees, stacking firewood and operating heavy machinery on newly purchased property. He was arrested in Quincy in the Plumas National Forest in August 2024 after a multiyear investigation. He pleaded guilty to felony insurance fraud and was sentenced to 270 days in county jail, two years' formal probation, and ordered to pay $232,829 restitution to the CHP and $127,791 to the state compensation insurance fund. He will also lose service and pension credit for the years in which fraud was committed.
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