Former Harris County Officer Gets Probation for Selling Cars She Didn't Own

Stevie Mosley sold a 2022 Lexus to a buyer who had no reason to doubt her. She arrived in uniform, badge on display, the full weight of the Harris County Sheriff's Office apparently behind her. The car was rented. She didn't own it. And now, after being sentenced to four years' probation with no jail time, she may ultimately have no criminal conviction at all.

Mosley, 23, is a former Harris County Sheriff's Office detention officer who resigned in April 2025 while under an internal affairs investigation for fraternizing with a jail inmate. That inmate, Denise Johnson, a convicted felon, later became Mosley's alleged accomplice in the scheme. When Mosley left the department, she did not return her uniform. Instead, she used it to steal.

Advertising rented vehicles on Facebook Marketplace and similar platforms, Mosley leveraged her uniform and badge to build trust with buyers. One victim, who asked to remain anonymous, described the moment she decided to go through with the purchase: "She came out in uniform flashing a real badge." The uniform, according to reporting, was what convinced that buyer to hand over money for the 2022 Lexus.

The deception extended beyond private buyers. A car dealership owner, who also asked not to be identified, described a direct encounter with Mosley: "She came here to purchase a vehicle, provided all the documents necessary, put a down payment on the vehicle and left. Never saw her again."

Both the victim and the dealership owner reacted to the four-year probated sentence with the same word: not justice. "In my opinion, it's not justice for the victim and not for us car dealerships. I don't feel like it's justice," the dealership owner said. "What does it say to everybody else [that] you're not going to spend any time behind bars? That's not justice on either side at all." The anonymous victim kept it simpler: "She should have gotten a little more punishment."

The sources do not identify the specific charges Mosley faced, the sentencing judge, or the conditions attached to her probation. What is explicit is the outcome's legal structure: if Mosley completes her four years of probation without violation, she will carry no final conviction on her record for crimes committed while impersonating a law enforcement officer with a real badge and a uniform she should have returned months earlier.