Police: Officer fired for demanding free coffee

Fla. cop allegedly threatened workers with slower responses if they refused

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July 18: A Florida police officer was fired after repeatedly demanding free specialty coffee from a local Starbucks. MSNBC's Contessa Brewer reports.

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updated 2:47 p.m. ET July 18, 2008

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - An internal affairs report says a Daytona Beach police officer demanded free coffee and tea from a Starbucks and threatened employees with slower emergency response times if they refused.

Lt. Major Garvin, a 15-year veteran, was fired July 8. According to the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Chief Mike Chitwood says Garvin recently failed a polygraph test that he insisted on taking.

The coffeehouse's employees claim that since June 2007, Garvin had visited the store as many as six times a night while on duty. Besides demanding free drinks, workers complained that Garvin also cut in front of paying customers.

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A telephone listing for Garvin could not be found.