February 21, 2007
GREENSBORO - The former deputy police chief wanted to rid his boss of a troublesome neighbor, even if it involved trumped-up charges against the woman, according to a tape released Tuesday. The conversation between former police Chief David Wray's right-h...
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February 15, 2007
GREENSBORO - Even though a federal judge ruled the city must give David Wray's former deputy chief his retirement pay, elected leaders are refusing to let the matter drop. City Council members emerged from a special three-hour closed session Tuesday night...
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January 27, 2007
GREENSBORO - A leadership vacuum in a police department racked by scandal will deepen next month when an assistant chief resigns to take a position in Virginia. The departure of Craig Hartley leaves one assistant chief in an agency of more than 500 office...
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January 21, 2007
GREENSBORO - The question summed up, in a nutshell, criticism of how the city runs its police force. "Mr. Manager," an audience member asked City Manager Mitchell Johnson at a forum on the search for a new chief, "how can (former Chief) David Wray have be...
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January 14, 2007
GREENSBORO - A year after he resigned under pressure, former Greensboro police Chief David Wray is expected to be questioned this week by the SBI, signaling that an eight-month criminal probe of the department is almost over. And in another sign that the...
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October 26, 2006
GREENSBORO - Previewing the thunderhead of costly litigation looming over City Hall, a lawyer for the lieutenant at the center of a police scandal called on the city to end the public ordeal. Ken Free, who represents Lt. James Hinson and about 30 other bl...
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October 25, 2006
GREENSBORO - Supporters of a police lieutenant cleared of criminal allegations are coming to the officer's defense, as frustration in the department mounts over a city-imposed gag rule on officers. The department's internal probe of alleged wrongdoing by...
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October 12, 2006
GREENSBORO - Federal prosecutors are "gravely concerned" about notes from undercover drug cases appearing in a weekly newspaper, but they will not take a lead in investigating possible leaks. In a letter hand-delivered to the police department Wednesday......
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October 11, 2006
Correction: Nicole Pettiford was recorded by Greensboro police Special Intelligence officers without her knowledge and prior to a six-hour interrogation by the unit in a local hotel room in 2004. An article Wednesday indicated otherwise. GREENSBORO - The...
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October 7, 2006
GREENSBORO - Police have launched an investigation into who copied sensitive internal files and transcripts from highly restricted federal drug cases and fed them to a local weekly newspaper, city leaders said Friday. And the city has launched a Web site...
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April 2, 2006
GREENSBORO - After 27 years on the city police force, Bob Walters said he took the obvious step when he suspected a detective in his squad was not working her cases and was lying about it: He told his bosses. What surprised him was the response , coming o...
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March 11, 2006
GREENSBORO - A confidential report on former police Chief David Wray's administration was tainted by a City Hall "agenda," Wray's lawyers said Friday. After an article appeared in the News & Record about a confidential report that alleged harsher disc...
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March 10, 2006
GREENSBORO - Former police Chief David Wray "crippled" his department with harsher discipline for black officers and threats to commanders who questioned his decisions, according to a confidential report obtained by the News & Record. The report by an...
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February 19, 2006
GREENSBORO - They might have been a favorite topic for conspiracy theorists, but the "secret police" were purely an urban legend, former Chief David Wray often said. After all, how secret was a unit that listed its number in the blue pages, as the Special...
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February 8, 2006
GREENSBORO - Leaders of the local African American clergy are calling for release of a "black book" photo array used by city police and a full account of the activities of the department's Special Intelligence Section. In a Tuesday news conference, electe...
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February 7, 2006
GREENSBORO - The veteran commander who was former police Chief David Wray's right-hand man filed a lawsuit Monday against the city, alleging his retirement pay is being unfairly held up pending an internal inquiry. Randall Brady, 51, who commanded the Spe...
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February 5, 2006
GREENSBORO - Former police Chief David Wray defended his order of repeated investigations into corruption on the force, explaining his actions to the city in a 26-page confidential memo obtained by the News & Record. In the memo, which city officials...
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January 15, 2006
On a warm Friday night last June, Lt. James Hinson pulled his unmarked cruiser away from The Grande cinema after stopping to chat with a friend and once again noticed the tan Dodge van behind him. Pulling over his Crown Victoria until the van passed, Hins...
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January 12, 2006
GREENSBORO - Former police Chief David Wray denied in a written statement Wednesday that a covert unit's "black book" constituted racial profiling. The book, which contained 114 photos of black officers and civilians, was compiled by the unit dubbed the......
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January 7, 2006
GREENSBORO - The city manager changed the locks to the office of embattled police Chief David A. Wray on Friday but emphasized in a statement that he "is still the police chief." City Manager Mitchell Johnson said he expected the chief at work Monday but...
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June 23, 2005
The Greensboro NAACP will investigate allegations by black police officers that they have been targeted by a covert police intelligence squad, the group's president, Gladys Shipman, said Wednesday. Shipman held a closed, two-hour meeting with the group's...
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June 19, 2005
He's been Police Officer of the Year, president of the black officer's chapter, had his picture in the paper enough times to fill a scrapbook, and he has sponsored everything from bodybuilding charity benefits to a halfway house for prostitutes. Like the...
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June 18, 2005
A police lieutenant at the center of highly charged racial allegations against what ranks have dubbed "the secret police" was suspended Friday, just before Chief David Wray announced that he has cleared the covert unit of alleged misconduct. Never mentio...
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June 16, 2005
GREENSBORO - Facing pressure from within his own department, Greensboro police Chief David Wray has ruled out asking an outside agency to probe alleged misconduct by a covert unit the ranks have dubbed the "secret police." But Wray also said Wednesday tha...
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June 15, 2005
GREENSBORO - The wife of a high-profile Greensboro police lieutenant who last week found a tracking device hidden under his cruiser has alleged that her home was under police surveillance as well. Beverly Hinson, though separated since last year from Lt.
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