The board voted to revoke fired Tucson police officer Virgilio Marshall's peace officer certification, after a department investigation revealed the probationary employee failed to meet department standards.
Marshall was hired by Tucson Police Department in December 2014 and fired last March, AZPOST records show.
Less than a year after his hiring, Marshall was investigated by the department for failing to adequately process a burglary scene, mishandling evidence, failing to document the victims' information and putting inaccurate information about a suspect vehicle into a police report, according to the AZPOST records.
While investigating the burglary, Marshall refused to take fingerprints from areas that the homeowner indicated had been disturbed, including a pamphlet and cigarette butts the burglar had dropped on the floor.
During the investigation, Marshall was reassigned to desk duty, where he fielded a call from a Department of Child Services employee wanting to file a police report regarding two children who had been taken into protective custody, according to AZPOST records.
Marshall refused to take the report over the phone, even after a DCS supervisor told him the report was necessary to prevent the parents from being reunited with their children. During his interview with internal affairs, Marshall lied to investigators, saying that he'd told both DCS employees he would take the report. He was also found to have lied to investigators during interviews about the burglary investigation.
