A former deputy with the Volusia Sheriff's Office has been arrested and charged with organized scheme to defraud, the agency confirmed on Monday. 37-year-old Douglas Meyer is accused of writing and cashing bad checks.
Meyer worked for the Volusia Sheriff's Office from 2020 to 2024. He then began a second stint with the VSO in 2025, before his eventual resignation in August. The month after his resignation, a financial institution Meyer is said to have worked with reported fraud to law enforcement.
"Meyer thought he could get away with a check kiting scheme where he wrote himself bad checks from one credit union to another, accessing funds by exploiting the time it takes for checks to clear," said Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood in a statement. "He even showed up at one of his credit unions in uniform to ask for the hold on his deposited checks to be released."
An investigation was launched into Meyer's alleged fraud by the VSO after they received the tip from his credit union. On Sunday, Meyer turned himself in and was booked into the Volusia County Branch Jail. He was held in custody for under an hour before being released on $7,500 bond.
For his alleged crimes, Chitwood is symbolically scrubbing Meyer's service from the VSO as an organization. "This ex-deputy's badge will be melted down," he continued. "My goal is to make sure he's held accountable and never works in law enforcement again."
