JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – An officer with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office has been arrested after he claimed more than 200 hours of overtime for traffic enforcement shifts that he never worked, Sheriff T.K. Waters announced Thursday.
Waters acknowledged that during at least some of those false overtime claims, which totaled more than $14,000, Officer Christian Madsen was actually at the home of his supervisor, and the two had a romantic relationship.
According to Waters, after getting a tip on Feb. 12 of this year, the Integrity Unit’s investigation focused on a period from Dec. 1, 2025, to Feb. 7, 2026, during which Madsen submitted overtime claims for traffic enforcement for over 200 hours that he did not work.
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During the investigation, Waters said, integrity detectives learned that during some of the hours he claimed he was working, Madsen was actually at the home of JSO Patrol Division Chief Jaime Eason -- his boss.
“We started looking into it about three weeks ago, and we did find that he had traveled to her home during those overtime hours, and there was a relationship,” Waters said, later confirming that it was a romantic relationship. “It took three weeks of really hard work by these detectives, very in-depth work by these detectives to make a case, a very strong case to bring him to justice.”
Madsen has been charged with one count each of grand theft, organized fraud and official misconduct, which are all third-degree felonies, Waters said.
“The cumulative nature of Madsen’s conduct demonstrates a deliberate, ongoing course of criminal behavior rather than a reflection of (an) administrative error or isolated accident,” Waters said.
It marks the sixth JSO employee arrested this year: five officers and one corrections officer. JSO arrested seven employees in all of 2025.
“As I say all the time, our collective belief in openness, transparency and accountability outweighs personal allegiance to JSO employees, especially ones that violate the public trust,” Waters said. “As we have said many times before, no one is above the law.”
Madsen, who has been with JSO for more than 11 years, has been suspended, and Waters said JSO will seek his termination.
Madsen’s supervisor, Jaime Eason, who was the first woman appointed as chief over the entire patrol division, has resigned her position as chief, “after a long conversation in my office,” Waters said.
Patrol division chief is one of the biggest jobs at the sheriff’s office, overseeing about half of the sworn law enforcement officers.
Waters said Eason, who started at JSO in 1999, is now going through an administrative process but declined to share further details about any possible punishment for Eason.
“I’m very disappointed. She knows that. We talked,” Waters said of Eason. “When someone messes it up, then we have to address it, so we’ve done that.”
He said they are still investigating whether Eason knew that Madsen was clocking overtime hours when the two were together.