Verdict follows former Police Chief’s misconduct conviction
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State Prosecutor Emmet C. Davitt announced today that former Pocomoke City Police Lieutenant was found guilty by the Honorable W. Newton Jackson, III in the Worcester County Circuit Court of conspiring to commit misconduct with former Police Chief Kelvin Sewell by protecting a fellow Mason, former correctional officer Douglas Matthews, from hit and run charges after he hit two parked vehicles and fled the accident scene in November of 2014. Judge Jackson sentenced Green to probation before judgment and placed him on one year of probation.
The evidence at trial established that officers responding to the scene of the accident discovered that two separate vehicles had been severely damaged and that the striking vehicle had left its right front tire and part of its axle at the sight of the accident before fleeing the scene on three wheels. The responding officers located the striking vehicle parked in front of Mr. Matthew’s home by following damage to the roadway caused by the vehicle as it fled the accident scene. Total damage to the victims’ vehicles exceeded $20,000
At trial, the court learned that earlier this year Lieutenant Green admitted to State agents that he received a call on his cell phone that evening from fellow Mason Douglass Matthews indicating that he had been in an accident and he had left the scene. Lieutenant Green indicated that he immediately called Chief Sewell and the two subsequently arrived at Mr. Matthews’s residence. Green further admitted that after arriving on the scene and speaking to Matthews that he informed Chief Sewell that Matthews had been drinking and that they discussed not charging Matthews because he was a Mason. Further testimony from Pocomoke City police officers revealed that Chief Sewell then prevented a subordinate officer from questioning Matthews about alcohol use and ordered the officer to write up the report as an accident, not a hit and run. Several officers testified that, under the circumstances, they would have performed field sobriety tests.
State Prosecutor Emmet C. Davitt stated “Former Police Chief Kelvin Sewell and former Lieutenant Lynell Green took an oath, as do all police officers, to uphold the laws without prejudice or partiality. Their actions that evening were in violation of that oath and, as nobody is above the law, their actions cannot be tolerated.”
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The law is the law until natural human intervention takes place. Then it becomes a HUGE mess where everyone gets hurt, nobody wins.
Sad but so true.
When would it end - RoboCop! Don't laugh, we continue to move into that direction!
I tried to turn police corruption in somerset county years ago. The states attorney Hickman refused to do anything about it and told me she couldn't get involved with somerset sheriffs department. Apparently she could have.
But the ACLU will have you believe it was only due to their skin color they were reprimanded. We should overlook the fact they covered up a crime as police officers because, it wasn't that serious...what a joke. They should be prosecuted to the fullest extent for the amount of outrage this caused in Pocomoke.
So who was the person who the corrupt police were doing the favor for? Has he been charged with anything? He is alleged to have hit two vehicles while under the influence and drove home without stopping. Where does he stand in all of this?
This story is about FREEMASONRY and its rotten influence throughout local and federal governments. Secrecy is repugnant in a democratic society. Freemasonry needs to be exposed and elected officials involved in it should be BANNED from holding offices.
Their allegiance is to the secret brotherhood - not those who voted for them.
How does race have ANYTHING to do with this incident, other than it being used as an excuse for why the officers were prosecuted? (And CONVICTED)
May I say this to our black/brown friends.. if you REALLY want an end to the tensions that may exist between us, you need to stop trying to invoke race every time something happens. A court of law found these people guilty-- fair and square. That should be the end of it (especially when there is other prior behavior that would tend to confirm it).
I can only speak for myself, but I've been trying for many years to get along the best I can with EVERYBODY, no matter their color, but because I'm white, I'm assumed to be a racist and treated as such.
Isn't that exactly the same thing that black people have been accusing us of?
Let's give it a rest. Just try to love and respect everybody, the same as youj would like them to do to you.
You know, the Golden Rule.
Why isn't Douglas Matthew facing internal charges at ECI?
So, he gets to keep his job and gets a "just quit doing that" as a punishment.
OKAY?
Two Sets of Laws.
Right in your face.
He was driving drunk.
He hit two cars, severely damaging the.
He damaged his own car (imagine the impact) so badly that he left a tire and part of his axle at the scene.
He LEFT the scene.
Probation.
Keep cheering.
2:02 PM: Hickman was just as dirty as what was occurring at the Sheriff's Office. It would have come back on her.
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