Ex-cop seen at Stagecoach while claiming disability: DA
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Background: Scene of the Stagecoach Festival (Stagecoach Festival/YouTube). Inset: Nicole Brown (Westminster Police Department/Facebook).

A former police officer from California asserted that a head injury she incurred while on duty rendered her unable to perform her responsibilities. However, she was later spotted dancing at a music festival.

The Orange County District Attorney’s Office released a statement revealing that 39-year-old Nicole Brown was an officer with the Westminster Police Department when she was injured during an incident in March 2022. The statement noted that Brown received “a minor abrasion to her forehead during an attempt to arrest and handcuff a non-compliant suspect.” She visited the emergency room due to complaints of headaches but was discharged without any medical limitations.

Subsequently, Brown reportedly called in sick for several days, claiming she had been diagnosed with severe concussion syndrome, which led to her being placed on total temporary disability.

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While unable to perform her duties as an officer, Brown was entitled to workers’ compensation benefits after sustaining her alleged injury while on the job — including her full salary, tax-free, paid for by “the city, county, or state agency that employs the officer,” according to the DA. After a one-year period, that amount decreases to 2/3 of her full salary but can pay out for up to 104 weeks.

According to the DA, Brown collected more than $600,000 in benefits.

However, evidence obtained by the DA’s office called Brown’s so-called “total disability” into question. While out on disability, Brown allegedly claimed that she suffered from “headaches, dizziness, sensitivity to light and noise, problems processing thoughts and words, and an inability to work on the computer or do any screentime.”

But on April 23, 2023 — a full year after Brown went on disability and while still claiming to be suffering symptoms of a concussion — Brown was seen by “several people” who had knowledge of her medical status “dancing and drinking at the Stagecoach Music Festival, with more than 75,000 people in attendance with loud music and bright lights everywhere and temperatures in excess of 100 degrees.”

After those people reported Brown’s activities at Stagecoach to the Westminster Police Department, an investigation into the officer’s disability claims began.

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