Austin police officer indicted in Social Security fraud scheme fired

AUSTIN (KXAN) — An Austin police officer whose wife is accused of embezzling and stealing money from the United State Social Security Administration has been fired from the force.
In June, Roosevelt Granderson II, 44, was arrested while working at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on charges connected to a scheme to collect more than $258,000 in benefits that he, his wife and mother-in-law were not entitled to, a grand jury indictment alleges.
When the department was made aware of the