A former Massachusetts State Police barracks commander was indicted Thursday over allegations he abused paid holiday time off by taking thousands of dollars he was not entitled to.

David Andrade, who retired as a lieutenant in August, was accused of taking more than $11,500 worth of paid time off while heading the Troop D Dartmouth barracks, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s office said in a statement.

The Westport man allegedly submitted claims to be compensated for 22 holiday days he was not entitled to and then “falsified entries on his attendance calendars to make it appear that he was actually working on days that he had taken off," the statement said.

The 47-year-old man was indicted by a Bristol County grand jury on charges of larceny over $1,200 by single scheme and public employee standards of conduct violation. He will be arraigned in Bristol Superior Court at a later date, according to Healey’s office.

“It is unfortunate and unacceptable that these allegations exist, and our investigation indicates that this defendant’s alleged scheme appears to be unique to this individual," Colonel Christopher Mason, state police superintendent, said in a statement.

The indictment comes as state police remain embroiled in last year’s overtime scandal, centering on Troop E, in which 46 troopers were accused of getting paid for overtime hours they did not work and then falsifying documents to cover up their violations. The troopers allegedly skipped overtime shifts or left early during them in 2015 and 2016.

A court filing earlier this year also implicated supervisors in the scandal.

Mason, who recently took on the job as state police superintendent, announced in November he plans to institute mandatory ethics training for all troopers.

Andrade, who was paid more than $190,000 since he was hired by state police in 2018, retired around the time he came under investigation, The Boston Globe reported. He allegedly abused paid time off for months after the state police overtime scandal came to a head.

After uncovering the alleged abuse, state police audited all supervisors’ “holiday-related pay entries” and found one other case “warranting further review” that is now being investigated, state police said.

“That case involves a different person, from a different troop, and a different type of holiday pay discrepancy,” state police spokesman Dave Procopio said in a statement.

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