Sgt. Lynn Benton
Police officer Lynn Benton has some soap-worthy headlines attached to his name. The FTM Gladstone sergeant has been implicated in the 2011 murder of his wife Deborah Higbee-Benton, but these are not the allegations for which he was recently fired.
Benton was fired last December following a memorandum (PDF) issued by Gladstone police chief Jim Pryde. This memo has just surfaced, thanks to an appeal The Oregonian filed with the Clackamas County District Attorney’s Office which ordered the release despite the city of Gladstone’s decision to withhold the document.
In it Pryde recommends termination based on the following accusations:
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