Months after his arrest, prosecutors have filed a grand theft charge against a Delray Beach Police officer after he allegedly stole $1,500 from the department’s Vice Intelligence Unit fund, court records show.

Officer Matthew Cusson was arrested in April after a supervisor recognized the money was missing, the city said in a news release at the time.

The Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office filed the charge on Thursday.

A Delray Beach sergeant, who has for the past two years kept the Vice Unit’s money in a cash box locked inside of a safe in his office, noticed on April 16 that a stack of $20 bills were gone, according to a probable cause affidavit. Less than $500 was left in the box that afternoon, and the stack of bills was noticeably thinner than when he last checked the night

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