Both employees forced to hand over free ice cream to an insistent Delray Beach police officer last April have since moved on to other professions, a co-owner of the shop said.
One employee is now in the medical profession and the other — in an ironic twist — works at the Broward County State Attorney’s office, said Randy Schmidt, a co-owner of the Ben & Jerry’s on East Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach. Schmidt said he wasn’t in the shop the night his employees were held up for two scoops.
When asked if his employees got out of the ice cream game because it was too fraught with corruption and danger, Schmidt just laughed. “That was really something,” he said.
Michael Brown was fired from the Delray Beach Police Department Nov. 20 after an internal investigation showed he demanded free ice cream from the Ben & Jerry’s and that he had also failed to pay for a meal at a local IHOP. Brown had been with the department since 2007.
— Kelly Wolfe
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