Ex-Superior police captain won't be criminally charged in
perjury case
SUPERIOR, WI (WTAQ) - No
criminal charges will be filed against a former police captain in Superior who
was suspected of committing perjury.
Douglas County District
Attorney Dan Blank said Thursday that a charge against former Captain Chad La
Lor would be hard to prove.
Authorities investigated
allegations that La Lor lied during a Police and Fire Commission hearing last
November about the misconduct of another officer. The captain was asked about a
hit and run crash in 2009.
La Lor admitted being
drunk when he struck another vehicle, and said there were no previous incidents
in which he drove drunk.
Superior Police Chief
Charles LaGesse put the captain on leave in January and had Washburn County’s
sheriff investigate. And Terry Dryden said he could not find evidence that La
Lor committed perjury or any other crime during his testimony.
The Douglas County DA then
named Bayfield County’s DA Craig Haukaas as a special prosecutor. Haukaas said
the investigation uncovered issues that caused alarm, but he agreed it would be
“difficult at best” to support a perjury charge against La Lor.
The captain resigned March
20th, saying his work environment became, “untenable.” Thursday, he said the
investigation came to the same conclusion as he did in January – that he never
committed perjury.
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