By Jeff Sturgeon jeff.sturgeon@roanoke.com 981-3251
The city of Salem revealed
Monday morning that a Salem police detective assigned to a federal drug task
force was suspended without pay two months ago and is the subject of a federal
investigation.
The reason for the
investigation has not been made public.
Salem spokesman Mike Stevens
said the officer, whom Stevens declined to name, was suspended without pay Oct.
10 in connection with an FBI probe.
Before the suspension, the
officer had been assigned for the last five years to a local U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration task force. The officer worked in the task force’s Roanoke
office, Stevens said.
Steven’s statement indicated
that the case may be in a preliminary phase and hasn’t yet gone to court.
Stevens said the officer’s
suspension would be subject to further review and revision “at the conclusion
of this officer’s court proceedings.”
Salem Police Chief Tim Guthrie
declined to comment, except to say the officer’s situation is a personnel matt
