In Charleston County, S.C. the sheriff knows how to discipline a problem deputy.
According to the Post and Courier (www.postandcourier.com) Charleston County Deputy Nicholas Wagner was driving his own vehicle early Sunday, May 7, when he lost control. In more ways than one.
http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20120507/PC16/120509352&slId=1
Wagner was charged with DUI after totaling his white Lexus SUV on I-526 about 2:00AM. A Charleston police officer reported that Wagner “smelled of an alcoholic beverage, had glassy eyes, slurred
speech, and he swayed as he walked.”
The newspaper carried the story the very next day. Imagine that! And contrast that with local reporting here after an off-duty deputy smashed his take-home squad car while DUI.
How did Wagner's employer react?
Monday's newspaper also reported that Wagner's supervisors placed him on administrative leave without pay.
I wonder if Sheriff J. Al Cannon, Jr. might be about to call our McHenry County, Ill. sheriff, Keith Nygren, and explain how he was able to do that so quickly. Sheriff Cannon, when you read this, the number is 815.338.2144. We have a little problem here with a deputy who was charged in January with ten felonies and indicted, but our sheriff has kept him on the payroll.
Source: www.dwihitparade.com
You never know who is interested…
3 months ago
5 comments:
Not sure which case you're speaking of Gus. Pretty much "ancient history" like so much you complain of. Two incidents involving deputies with DUI's and squads come to mind. Are you referring to the one several years ago where the deputy left a party, crashed his squad in the Coventry area of Crystal Lake? The one where the Crystal Lake PD was allegedly trying to keep it on the "down low" and then the sheriff's command staff got involved and insisted that charges be filed? Then the sheriff either fired the guy or brought him up before the merit commission and dumped him?
Or are you talking about the probationary(?) deputy who wiped out - either his own car or a squad - on Country Club Rd (?) and was summarily fired?
I know you see everything in black and white but the truth is that each and every case has, at the very least, very subtle differences. I realize that in your ignorance you tend to ignore things like that but the fact is that they cannot be ignored by the powers that be.
Naturally, you roll totally unrelated piece into a continuing tirade on why Pyle is still being paid. You choose to ignore the repeated comments of those who apparently know something about the laws involved. It would seem that if you actually have any particular expertise, it is in simply in being ignorant.
Give it a rest while you still have some credibility even with the hard core tin foil hat folks. You've already lost it with the rest of us!
Steve,
I guess you just don’t understand or perhaps don’t read enough of Gus’s bloviating to understand that he does not want facts, he wants only what he can print that smears the MCSO or especially the Sheriff. Supreme Court Cases or employee law mean nothing to him. It is the “Rule of GUS” --- of what HE thinks is right. Regardless if the criminal case is compromised and sets up the county for back pay and maybe loss of the ISP criminal case means little to Gus. That would just give him more fodder for future attacks of ‘how they screwed up the process.’ Others have explained and cited the law and reasons for paid versus non paid status, but he chooses to cherry pick cases that do not have any relevance to this case and confuses facts.
You are correct that it was the Sheriff command that demanded the blood draw on the deputy and he was summarily fired. Yes Crystal Lake Officers tried to overlook this but the Sheriff Command did the ethical thing. The sheriff also summarily fired the deputy when he was in a crash off duty in his own vehicle when there was evidence of his drinking alcohol. However these case are somewhat different in that no civil hearing was required. For the first year the deputy is not TENURED as a MERITED Deputy and therefore is an AT WILL employee. There is no property right in the employment and the Sheriff can just say BU Bye.
I am surprised that Gus published your comment. Usually he refuses to publish anything that goes against his misguided views. As a blogger he does not vet his rants, he just throws stuff out there hoping a few that read it will think he is right, but the majority of people know his tractor doesn’t plow straight and he has warped views. I will be greatly surprised if this post sees the light of day.
Sam, not sure why you are "surprised". I publish many such comments - that's after I finish laughing at them.
Now, the ones that are violent, profane, libelous toward others? If submitted anonymously, those I don't publish.
Steve & Sam. Don't even bother trying to drag logic into this discussion. There is a Will Rogers quote that reminds me of this blog.
"Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction."
No matter what you say, Gus will argue you're wrong. That being said I think it best not to approach him from ANY DIRECTION. [Emphasis intended]
US, thanks! I feel so much safer now.
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