07-03-2025
Former DC police officer pleads guilty to wire fraud
WASHINGTON () — A former patrol officer with the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) pleaded guilty on Thursday to COVID emergency loan fraud, the U.S. Attorney's Office (USAO) announced.
Kalynn Fields, 34, of Baltimore, Md., filed false and misleading information in order to get $35,000 in Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDLs) and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans.
According to court documents, Fields created two businesses in June 2021 and May 2022, which she used to apply for the loans. At the time, she was a patrol officer with MPD and failed to report the outside business venture, despite MPD's policy requiring her to do so.
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In September 2021, Fields reportedly submitted a PPP loan application for $20,000 on behalf of one of her businesses.
She claimed the business was 'General Freight Trucking, Lond Distance' when she did not have a freight trucking license or the insurance required to run such a business.
Fields 'had not complied with the PPP Program rules and misspend the PPP funds she received as part of her fraudulent PPP loan application,' court documents stated.
She also had someone submit an EIDL application, on behalf of one of the businesses, containing materially false statements.
When the initial application was denied, she had someone upload fabricated documents to the application portal.
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The application was later approved.
Fields pleaded guilty to wire fraud on March 6, 2025, having obtained $35,000 in loans.
She faces up to 20 years in prison and is scheduled to be sentenced on June 20.
DC News Now reached out to the Metropolitan Police Department for a statement and is waiting for a response.
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