Garcia v. Walder Electronics, Inc.

Plaintiff Raul Garcia,1 appeals the granting of defendant’s motion for summary judgment.

Prior to being accepted as a police trainee with the Metro Dade Police Department, Raul Garcia was employed by Walder Electronics as a store manager. However, soon after becoming employed with the Metro Dade Police, Officer Dieppa, a personnel officer, received a brief anonymous phone call alleging that Garcia had been involved in certain thefts of goods from the electronics store he had previously managed.2 The caller instructed Officer Dieppa to call a Mr. Alan Hill, a representative of Walder…