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Police conclude probe into misconduct charges By PATRICK FOX pat@appenmediagroup.com
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The City of Dunwoody just completed a $3.5 million paving program that included improvements to 37 streets.
Dunwoody completes work on street resurface projects DUNWOODY, Ga, – The City of DunDecember 2008, city leaders began building a plan for a 20-year paving woody has completed its 2020 paving program included 37 streets and 12 lane cycle. The plan prioritizes paving based on a pavement assessment report and is miles of asphalt. Contractors finished updated for all city streets every 5 years. work earlier than anticipated due to Dunwoody has paved 188 lane miles lower traffic on the roads this spring. since incorporation. “As an essential business, construcMinor cleanup and utility adjustwas able to continue during the 6 66 66 6tion 66 6 statewide shelter-in-place order resulting ments will continue through the end of from COVID-19,” said Dunwoody Public July. Paving budgeted for 2020 on Peeler Works Director Michael Smith. “As traffic Road, Winters Chapel Road, Tilly Mill begins to pick up, we hope drivers notice Road and Dunwoody Club Drive will be a smoother ride in many places.” completed as part of individual capital Most of the funding for the projects that are beginning construction $3,550,000 project came from DeKalb this year. This year’s paving included S. County’s Special Purpose Local Option Georgia Way, which runs through Brook Sales Tax (SPLOST). The Georgia Depart- Run Park. The work began earlier this month after the completion of the park’s ment @ @ @ @of Transportation also providimprovement projects, including a new @ @ ed $487,000 of Local Maintenance and 1 13/4/19 Page11 03-06-19_HAbannerBlue.qxp_Layout 3/4/1911:16 11:16 AM AM Page @ @ Improvement @ 03-06-19_HAbannerBlue.qxp_Layout amphitheater, pavilion and multi-sport Grant (LMIG)03-06-19_HAbannerBlue.qxp_Layout funds. 03-06-19_HAbannerBlue.qxp_Layout 1 3/4/19 11:16 AM Page 1 1 3/4/19 11:16 AM Page 1 @ When Dunwoody became a city in fields. @ @ @ @
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Halstead argued that he was encouraged by one senior officer to apply for a position in the Brookhaven Police Department, and that his past DUNWOODY, Ga. — Dunwoody Police record would not be an issue. Halstead Chief Billy Grogan recently completed charged that the advice was a setup to an internal investigation that included get him to leave Dunwoody. Further, close to 50 allegations of sexual harasshe claims senior Dunwoody officers ment and unprofessional conduct withspread the word that he was unprofesin the department by senior officers. The allegations involve one former sional, and he has since had difficulty officer, Roger Halstead, who claims he finding employment. cannot secure employment because of Bolden claims his issues with the incidents, and current Dunwoody Espinoza began in 2013 when he beat Police Officer Brian Bolden. Both alout one of Espinoza’s friends for a job on the force. He said Espinoza told him lege bullying and harassment by Lt. there was something he didn’t trust in Fidel Espinoza, who resigned from the him and that he would be “watching department in May. him like a hawk.” After interviews with more than a A year later, Bolden said, Espinoza dozen witnesses, including current and began a pattern of sexual harassment former officers with the department, against him and even suggested that and other outside agencies, Grogan’s part-time work assignments depended investigation determined enough on his willingness to participate in evidence existed to sustain six of the certain sexual activities. Bolden said charges of misconduct. he suspected Espinoza was trying to In his complaint, Halstead de“break him down,” and that the sexual scribes systematic harassment by a advances were “continuous, continugroup of senior supervisors, including Espinoza, that led him to seek employous, continuous.” Bolden also said that Espinoza ment elsewhere in 2018 and 2019. falsely accused him of stealing candy “Halstead suffered and continues to bars left inside a police vehicle. suffer for slanderous comments which During his interview with Grogan’s have basically blackballed him from the investigation, Espinoza disputed Hallaw enforcement community for future employment,” the allegation claimed. charges of harassment, claim> > stead’s After enduring repeated> harassment ing all exchanges of a sexual nature > > > for his work performance, the claim > >were consensual and it was little more > > > than kidding around. He admitted charges, Halstead the de> consulted > > > > to exchanging photos and texts with partment’s head >of>human > > > resources. > From that point >on, >Halstead alleged > > > > > the harassment got >worse. > See POLICE, Page 8 >
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