A 12-year veteran of the Baltimore Police Department was sentenced today to a year and a day in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for pocketing $3,000 while working as a federal agent.

Maurice Lamar Jeffers, 47, of Savage, MD., was caught in a sting operation stealing cash while assigned to the U.S. Marshals’ Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force.

In an undercover operation, federal agents filmed the defendant “stealing cash while he believed he was executing a search warrant” for the task force, said U.S. Attorney for Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein.

According to court documents and information at his plea hearing, Jeffers was asked on March 20, 2015 to secure a location with another investigator so that a law enforcement agency could execute a search warrant.

Jeffers conducted a brief sweep of the premises with the other investigator, then told the investigator to leave because no one was located inside the fictitious “crime scene.”

Jeffers was then videotaped searching the premises, locating the $3,000 hidden by the FBI and placing the money into his pants pockets.

When he was arrested and searched a month later, agents located eleven $20 bills he had stolen on March 10.