Chief Gary Smith (left) and Lt. Michael Christian Simmons (right):
Posted on 07/30/2018 6:52:49 AM PDT by george76
SOUTHPORT, N.C. - All police operations in Southport have been suspended and the entire force placed on paid administrative leave after the city's police chief and a lieutenant were arrested Thursday and charged with double-dipping at a second job while on the clock at the police department.
Chief Gary Smith, 46, and Lt. Michael Christian Simmons, 48, were both charged with conspiracy to obtain property by false pretenses, willful failure to discharge duties, and obstruction of justice.
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State investigators said Smith and Simmons were driving overnight shifts for an unnamed local trucking company during the same hours they had claimed on their daily activity reports for the Southport Police Department.
David said Smith and Simmons' duties for the trucking company routinely required them to be out of town and even out of the county.
Smith was taken into custody Thursday morning and booked into the Brunswick County Detention Center under a $10,000 unsecured bond. He was later released after posting bail.
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Despite the entire police force being put on administrative leave, David cautioned not to put all the officers in a negative light.
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Psst, calling all robbers, rapists and murderers.
Just part of the 90% that give the other 10% a bad name.
Southport. Beautiful place.
Great. Going out there next week.
Interesting that they are both black in a town that is less than a quarter black.
Like Paradise MA, milieu of much murder and mayhem? :-)
Chief Gary Smith (left) and Lt. Michael Christian Simmons (right):
It was a good shoot.
/Sarc.
“Psst, calling all...”
Please don’t....family is at Holden Beach this week and visit Southport.
These guys were treating their paid jobs like they were unpaid volunteer firemen
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