A former New Bedford police sergeant and treasurer of the city’s police union was sentenced to three months in prison Monday for embezzling money from the union’s coffers.
Discrepancies in the union’s finances were first reported to outside investigators after Fernandes took a leave of absence in April 2019 to deal with a mental health crisis.
In a letter delivered to the judge in court on Monday, Fernandes wrote that he regrets spending union money personal expenses like concert tickets, a trip to Florida and his family’s phone bills. Early in his career in 2006, Fernandes received the highest honor Massachusetts awards to police officers for his role responding to a mass shooting at a New Bedford strip club. Fernandes was shot in the eye and still managed to drive his injured partner to the hospital.
As Fernandes prepares to head to prison on August 8, there are still questions looming within the police department about whether federal prosecutors got to the bottom of the union's corruption problems. “I strongly believe that there is more to this but I will never know,” Cotter said in the letter. “Joshua is one who is accused and has taken responsibility.”
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