Employees: Officer Would Visit Starbucks Up To 6 Times A Night
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- An internal affairs report in Daytona Beach concluded that a police lieutenant demanded free coffee and tea from a Starbucks and threatened employees with slower emergency response times if they refused. Lt. Maj. Garvin was fired July 8. He was a 15-year veteran of the force. The Daytona Beach News-Journal quoted Police Chief Mike Chitwood as saying Garvin flunked a polygraph test that he himself had insisted on taking.
Starbucks employees claimed that starting in June 2007, Garvin visited the shop as many as six times a night while on duty. The workers said that in addition to demanding free drinks, he would cut in front of the paying customers.