Fairfax County Police Watch: More than 100 People Cleared of DUI After a Single Cop Was Exposed as Colassal Liar

In one of the incidents, which took place on August 2, 2014 Davis brought a woman to the Wake Forest Police Department for testing after he stopped her on suspicion of DWI. Without allowing her the full 30 minutes to contact a witness, Davis recorded that she hadn’t requested one. When the woman asked questions about the test, the deputy simply claimed she had refused to take it — and filed that refusal with the Dept. of Motor Vehicles.

By Claire Bernish | April 1, 2016

TFTP — More than 100 DWI cases had to be dismissed in Raleigh, North Carolina, after it was determined a sheriff’s deputy lied on the stand.

Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman dismissed all the cases after now-ex deputy, Robert Davis was deemed incompetent to testify by District Court Judge Jacqueline Brewer. Because Davis hadn’t been truthful in some cases, Brewer disqualified his testimony — leaving the DA no choice but to dismiss a plethora of cases involving the former cop.

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Last week, Wake County Sheriff Donnie Harrison fired Davis, who had been on the job for 15 years, over the revelations, according to The Wichita Eagle.

“In an order attached to one of the cases in which Brewer disqualified Davis as a witness, the judge outlined three incidents in which he made false statements on court documents and on the witness stand,” the Eaglereported.

North Carolina’s DWI law allows drivers to refuse any sobriety test — but their license will be revoked for a full year if they choose to do so. Before a test is given, drivers are allowed to contact an attorney for legal advice or a witness to observe the test — though testing cannot be delayed longer than a half hour.

Once the woman received notification by mail that her license would be revoked, she requested a hearing. Audio and video of the incident, which was recorded in the police department’s ‘intoxilyzer’ room, revealed Davis’ lies. She did, in fact, attempt to call a witness but was unable to get an outside line. Davis had also badgered her into taking the test before her allotted half hour had expired.

A similar incident occurred in February 2014, after Davis stopped another woman for suspected impaired driving — and “fired a stun gun twice at the driver.”

Though she contacted her attorney, Davis proceeded to administer the test before the 30-minute delay period had expired. Alarmingly, recording of that incident showed Davis simply lied — he recorded in paperwork not only that the driver didn’t make a phone call, but that she refused to take the test.

In a third incident from March 2015, Davis again recorded incorrectly that a driver had refused testing — when, in fact, she had simply questioned why she wasn’t being given the full 30 minutes.

Now, dozens of people have been let off the hook thanks to the former deputy’s lies.

“I hate it,” Sheriff Harrison said of firing Davis, “but we’ve got our credibility to look after, too.”

According to the Eagle, Harrison terminated Davis’ employment as soon as he received the judge’s order — with all its damning evidence.

Morrogh finds cop he doesn’t love. In other news, hell freezes.

Probe of fatal police shooting goes to federal authorities

By Justin Jouvenal/Post

The Fairfax County prosecutor has turned over the investigation of a fatal police shooting of an unarmed Springfield man to federal authorities, citing complications with the five-month-old case.

Commonwealth’s Attorney Ray Morrogh said the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia has agreed to continue the probe into the death of 46-year-old John Geer, who was shot during a standoff with Fairfax County police in August. No one has been charged in the incident.

“There is a conflict of interest that has arisen in the case,” Morrogh said Thursday. “And there is a second potential conflict of interest that has arisen out of my office. . . . This is the prudent thing to do.”

Morrogh declined to describe the nature of the conflicts because the investigation is ongoing. The U.S. attorney’s office said Thursday that it could not confirm or deny any investigation or comment on pending investigations.

Police went to Geer’s Pebble Brook Court home on Aug. 29 because of a report of a domestic disturbance. Geer’s father, Don Geer, said his son was upset because his girlfriend, the mother of his two children, had decided to leave him.

John Geer had thrown his girlfriend’s belongings in the front yard. She called police and told them that Geer had a firearm. Police said they tried for about 50 minutes to persuade Geer to leave the home, but he refused.

Don Geer said he watched the climax of the encounter. He said that he could not hear what officers were saying to his son but that he saw him standing with empty hands resting on top of a screen door at the home’s entrance.

At some point, John Geer began to slowly lower his hands and an officer opened fire, hitting Geer in the chest, his father said. Geer retreated inside and closed the door. A SWAT team eventually entered the home and found Geer dead.

Don Geer said detectives later told him that his son did not have a gun on him at the time of the shooting but that there was a holstered handgun a couple of steps from the front door.

Don Geer said it appeared to him that the shooting was unjustified, but he was unsure what to make of the probe being turned over to federal authorities.

“I don’t know whether that’s good or bad — if I had a better idea of why they are doing it, I could form an opinion,” he said.

Geer and friends of his son have been critical of how long the investigation has taken, but Morrogh said police and prosecutors were working to explore all the evidence. He did not think federal prosecutors would have to start from scratch.

“No one wants these things to linger on,” Morrogh said.

Our ink will outlast his career

Under the reign of former Chief of Police Rhorer the Fairfax County Police arrested a man for not wearing clothes in his house while he made coffee, set up an eye doctor on a gambling charge and then used the SWAT team to kill him. An investigation into the charge that the Doctor’s primary clients were cops has never been investigated. The police gunned down an emotionally unstable man because cop who shot him wrongly assumed the man was trying to escape. He wasn’t. The cops also shot dead four other citizens under highly questionable circumstances. The department under Rhorer was sued multiple times by citizens. So did they fire Rhorer? Naw they promoted him. According to news reports Rhorer draws a salary of $191,168 per year as Deputy Fairfax County Executive as well as a concurrent pension from the Fairfax County police of $173000 per year.

Occupation by force

According to the most recent U.S. Census figures, nearly one in five Fairfax residents (17.5 percent) is of Asian descent while Hispanics make up nearly 16 percent of Fairfax’s overall population. Those numbers drop considerably when applied to the Fairfax County Police Department, where only 4.3 percent of officers are Asian and 4.1 percent Hispanic. White officers make up 84 percent of Fairfax County’s 1,360-member police department, significantly higher than the county’s general population (54 percent white). Almost 90% of the force lives outside the county.