Former Sheriff's Deputy Sentenced to Home Detention for Workers' Comp Fraud

A former sheriff’s deputy in San Jose has been sentenced to 120 days in jail and ordered to pay $22,800 in restitution for filing a fraudulent workers’ compensation claim in 2015, according to the KRON Channel 4 television station in San Francisco. Mark Navarrete, a 12-year veteran of the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department, reported to his superiors that he injured his arm on the job last July. But a co-worker told Navarrete’s supervisor the injury had actually occurred while he was playing softball with colleagues at the Twin Creeks Sports Complex in Su...