Million Dollar Cop surrenders to a Boston reporter.

December 1, 1930

Oliver Garrett, head of the Boston Police Department vice/liquor squad and the subject of a nation-wide manhunt, turns himself in to Boston Post crime reporter Lawrence Goldberg. Garrett had disappeared after allegedly taking kickbacks from speakeasies that enabled him to buy a Boston townhouse, several cars, and a horse farm, while collecting a salary of $40.36 a week. Released after serving a two-year sentence at Deer Island House of Correction, he goes to work as a nightclub master of ceremonies, Garrett has a drink named after him (“The Million Dollar Cop”) and his pension restored after his claim of being injured while riding in a police car is upheld in 1952.

Sources
  • Boston Herald
  • Hennessey, Michael E.