When people paid citations in Hialeah, did this county clerk keep $1,800 in cash?
A Miami-Dade courtroom clerk working out of Hialeah District Court swiped $1,809 of cash citation payments, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office alleged Thursday.
Norris Kimble, 39, has been charged with four counts of theft, four counts of official misconduct, three counts of forgery and one count of an organized scheme to defraud. The State Attorney’s Office says he has been a county employee for 16 years.
An investigation by the Miami-Dade Office of the Inspector General started in 2018 claims Kimble:
▪ Took cash payments from four people a the Hialeah Traffic/Misdemeanor Division.
▪ Conjured fake transactions in the Clerk’s Office system for a different amount. Along with changing official court records, this allowed him to keep some of the payments.
But Kimble couldn’t control how the system would react when the actual payments weren’t credited. Those four people later found out their citations remained, officially, unpaid. This ignited an investigation that, the Inspector General’s office said, ended at Kimble.
