Former Eastville officer gets three years for elaborate inheritance gambling scam fraud

A former police officer from Eastville, Virginia, is headed to federal prison after admitting he conned friends, coworkers and neighbors out of hundreds of thousands of dollars with a story about a nonexistent inheritance to fund a gambling addiction.

Jerry Keith Brady Jr., 38, of Belle Haven learned his fate Thursday (February 19) in the U.S. District Court in Norfolk. The former Eastville Police officer received a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to wire fraud and money laundering tied to a yearslong scam.