Spring Lake North Carolina Police Dept. Crumbles in Corruption Probe
Bill Holmes
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09/n505/a08.html
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Pubdate: Sun, 10 May 2009
Source: Fayetteville Observer (NC)
Copyright: 2009 Fayetteville Observer
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Author: Corey G. Johnson
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US NC: SPRING LAKE: THE DEMISE OF A POLICE DEPARTMENT
SPRING LAKE -- Just days after Larry Faison settled into his new job
as town manager in October 2007, a two-page letter hit his desk. The
letter urged Faison to investigate alleged wrongdoing by Police Chief
A.C. Brown and one of his supervisors, Sgt. Darryl Coulter. It was
the first of many complaints sent anonymously to Faison's office and
other town leaders between October 2007 and February of this year.
The Fayetteville Observer obtained the letters -- as well as e-mails -
-- which cited dates and times of alleged instances of double-dipping,
false arrests, planting of drugs on suspects and other abuses of power
by some of the town's police officers.
Police sources said nine current and former officers drafted the
letters, which became more intense as time went by.
"Few of the officers do not know what else we can do to let you guys
know that things in the department are going downhill," one letter
said. "We really feel like we have no one who is listening to our
concerns, especially when you have officers breaking the law. We want
the town staff to handle the concerns within but we are getting to a
point where we no longer feel like the staff is listening. ...
Please help!!!" Alderman James O'Garra acknowledged that town leaders
became aware of the letters, but he said they didn't take them
seriously because Faison repeatedly assured the board that the
allegations were unfounded. "He just kept saying I checked with A.C.
( Brown ), and he says there is nothing to it," O'Garra said.
MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom
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Other officers complained about NC town's police
The Associated Press
SPRING LAKE, N.C.
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Current and former officers complained about problems in a North
Carolina town's police department more than a year before two
sergeants were arrested and the police chief resigned.
A town alderman in Spring Lake acknowledged that letters of complaint
were sent to the town manager, The Fayetteville Observer reported
Sunday. But Alderman James O'Garra said officials were told that the
chief said the letters were baseless.
Former chief A.C. Brown no longer is at the police department and a
telephone listing couldn't be found Monday.
Information from: The Fayetteville Observer,
http://www.fayobserver.com/article_ap?id=147320
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