Pembroke Pines Commissioner Jay. D Schwartz will not face any criminal charge, the State Attorney’s Office decided this week, months after a high school student accused him of impersonating an officer during a conversation on campus.
Schwartz, 54, was the subject of a Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigation that began in May after a Charles W. Flanagan High student reported to a School Resource Officer that he had just had an interaction with a teacher that he felt “was out of line,” according to a heavily redacted incident report previously obtained by the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
The commissioner was accused of approaching and questioning multiple students for several minutes while at one point flashing a badge that resembled a police officer’s, according to a State Atto