Ex-Fort Lauderdale cop facing federal charges related to stalking, fraud: FBI

A former Fort Lauderdale Police officer is facing federal charges following an FBI investigation into alleged stalking and fraud, records showed.

Henry Baldwin Lockwood III faces charges that include stalking, wire fraud, and fraud and related activity in connection with computers, according to a recently filed arrest affidavit.

Lockwood, who started with the department in 2012, had worked in the recruiting department and been featured in media reports related to the department’s recruitment efforts.

According to the affidavit, Lockwood allegedly used GPS trackers to stalk a person he’d dated from February 2022 to April 2024, when the relationship ended.

In June of 2024, he contacted the company he bought the trackers from requesting a reboot of the trackers because he believed they weren’t recording a correct location, the affidavit said.

The company said one tracker was at an address in Coconut Creek where his ex-girlfriend was working at the time, the affidavit said.

Either of the trackers reported being in or around the immediate vicinity of the ex-girlfriend’s home or place of employment on multiple dates in 2024, the affidavit said.

And on Aug. 10, 2024, Lockwood showed up at a lounge in Hollywood where his ex-girlfriend was, though she hadn’t told him she was there and it was an area she rarely frequented, the affidavit said.

On Aug. 16, 2024, she brought her vehicle to an auto shop and asked mechanics to inspect it for any tracking devices, and after putting the car on a lift a technician found a tracker and removed it from the car.

Lockwood was later caught on camera arriving at the business in his uniform and leaving with the tracker, the affidavit said.

After finding the tracker, the ex-girlfriend said she was in fear of Lockwood, changed her phone number, left her home to stay with a friend and filed a police report.

According to the affidavit, Lockwood also used the access he had as an officer to the Florida Department of Motor Vehicles and Highway Safety Vehicle Information Database to query peoples’ license plates, driver’s licenses or vehicle identification numbers without an authorized purpose.

That included searching license plates of vehicles and owners of vehicles previously owned by his ex-girlfriend, the affidavit said.

The fraud charges relate to Lockwood’s role as a treasurer on the board of the Fort Lauderdale Black Police Officers Association, the affidavit said.

Authorities said the association maintains funding via members’ dues and Lockwood was one of two authorized signers on the association’s bank account.

In April 2025, the association president received an email from a city payroll specialist inquiring about two overpayments made by the city to the association bank account in January 2024 totaling $56,419.44.

The payroll specialist had emailed Lockwood about the overpayment in January 2024 requesting the overpayment be sent back, but Lockwood never sent the overpayment back even though he claimed he’d sent checks to the payroll specialist, the affidavit said.

In February of 2025, Lockwood gave the president an envelope with documents related to the association bank account, but authorities found inconsistencies in the documents, the affidavit said.

Investigators then uncovered that Lockwood had used around $150,000 of the association’s funds for personal expenses including purchases at liquor stores, groomers, cleaners, pharmacies, GNC, and companies that sell GPS devices, on multiple occasions spanning multiple years, the affidavit said.

The misappropriations included over $61,000 of association funds being used to pay Lockwood’s American Express, over $5,000 used to pay his Mastercard, over $17,700 being transferred from the account to a personal business Lockwood owned, and over $9,600 from the account being used to pay a creditor’s rights practice on his behalf, the affidavit said.

Court documents showed Lockwood’s bond was set at $500,000, and he had to surrender his passport and wear a GPS monitor.