DEL.ICIO.USUpdated: 12:31 p.m. February 12, 2009
Police chief asks GBI to investigate DeKalb CEO
Bolton placed on leave for internal investigation into use of comp time
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Thursday, February 12, 2009
DeKalb County Police Chief Terrell Bolton will ask the Georgia Bureau of Investigation today to investigate both Bolton and Chief Executive Officer Burrell Ellis, Bolton’s lawyer said.
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Ellis placed Bolton on a two-week paid leave Monday pending an “internal investigation” of Bolton’s use of comp time and other unspecified issues.
Attorney Bill McKenney said Bolton retains his status as a police chief to request a GBI probe.
“We are sending a letter to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation requesting that they intercede and take over this investigation and expand it to include any improper actions taken by the CEO,” McKenney said.
McKenney said one of the possible “improper actions” is “the use of the sheriff’s [office] to investigate a county police department.”
He said sheriff’s deputies escorted one of Bolton’s assistants to the sheriff’s office this week and interrogated her for hours.
McKenney said plainclothes sheriff’s deputies approached Bolton’s two brothers as they spoke to Bolton and McKenney in a shopping center parking lot following Bolton’s meeting with Ellis Monday night.
The deputies asked for the brothers’ names, “which was totally improper” and then followed them when they left the parking lot, McKenney said.
Ellis has declined to say who is conducting the internal investigation.
Spokespersons for Ellis and Sheriff Tom Brown were not immediately available Thursday.
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