San Francisco Sheriff’s Office Chief of Staff Richard Jue was charged with misdemeanor hit-and-run and for filing a false police report after allegedly crashing a sheriff’s vehicle into a parked car, the city’s attorney general announced on June 23.

Prosecutors say Jue was off duty on March 4 when he was driving a sheriff’s vehicle and allegedly crashed into a Tesla parked on southbound Diamond Heights Boulevard near Duncan Street.

Jue is suspected of leaving the scene of the accident after “causing serious damage to both vehicles,” the district attorney’s office reported.

The defendant was arrested the morning of June 22 and is out of custody after posting $7,500 in bail later that day, according to the sheriff’s office.

Jue allegedly waited two weeks before formally reporting the accident, according to the district attorney.

“When he reported it, he claimed that he had been the victim of an unknown hit-and-run in a parking lot,” the district attorney’s office stated in a press release. “The next day, he allegedly made another report, apologizing and stating he, in fact, had caused the accident and left the scene without leaving a note.”

The Tesla was later deemed a total loss, the district attorney’s office reported.

The sheriff’s office’s criminal investigations unit investigated the incident and presented the case to the district attorney’s office, according to an office spokesman.

The internal affairs unit also conducted a separate administrative investigation, the office reported.

San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto, who was elected to office in 2020, placed Jue on administrative leave on Monday, sheriff’s spokesman Larry Olson told The Epoch Times in an email on Tuesday.

“The Sheriff’s Office holds all members—regardless of rank or role—to the highest ethical and professional standards,” Miyamoto said in a statement on Monday.

“We believe in the integrity of the judicial process and are committed to ensuring that anyone found guilty of criminal conduct, whether a member of our staff or the public, is held accountable.”

Jue spent more than three decades at the San Francisco Police Department before becoming Miyamoto’s chief of staff at the sheriff’s office in 2020, according to his LinkedIn profile. He was trained in homeland security and emergency management during his time in public safety.

Jue is scheduled to be arraigned on Thursday at the San Francisco Hall of Justice. He did not return a request for comment.