Winston-Salem, NC - Assistant Police Chief Barry D. Rountree will be Winston-Salem's next police chief, according to a Friday morning announcement from City Manager Lee Garrity. Rountree has served on the Winston-Salem Police Department for the last 25 years, and is currently the assistant chief in the Investigative Services Bureau. Chief Scott Cunningham announced in December 2012 that he would retire at the end of June 2013. Rountree will start his new position June 30. "I am very pleased with the level of feedback...
Friday, 31 May 2013
Barry Can't Catch a Break - You've seen the photos, and heard all the spin right and left. Here's the real deal, US Presidents every once and a while end up standing in the rain talking to the gathered masses. and when they do someone in uniform normally holds the umbrella.The reason is simple the uniform represents the nation and not one smuck singled out for some sub subservient duty.While right wing crazies are aghast it is totally acceptable.Airport...
Sunday, 19 May 2013
Friday, 17 May 2013
News on all fronts this past week is disturbing and troubling. National news has President Obama's administration being compared to the Nixon White House and Watergate. Local news has the dysfunctional Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners throwing "Robert's Rules of Order" out the window.Thankfully CP is on a boat and when the view out of the office is of South Carolina's Barrier Islands and the air is still cool it is easy to forget that our...
Monday, 13 May 2013
Friday, 10 May 2013
Thursday, 9 May 2013
Cedar Posts has learned that CMS Police Chief Bud Cesena has been placed on paid administrative leave pending an investigation.CMS staff has confirmed the suspension but would not disclose the reasons.Cesena was employed but the Charlotte Police Department for nearly 3 decades and took the position with CMS in 2006. Cesena was employed by the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department for nearly 3 decades, retired and took the position with CMS...
Tuesday, 7 May 2013
Cedar Posts is hearing from sources that CMPD's most senior Deputy Chief Kerr Putney will leave his post to take command of the Winston Salem Police Department.If the rumor is true Putney will be the 3rd Deputy Chief to leave the department in as many months.The current Winston-Salem police Chief Scott Cunningham, is retiring June 30.Cedar Posts Update: It's official Putney is now formally one of three finalists as reported by the Charlotte Observer...
Yeah! Those nincompoops need to be run out of Charlotte on a slick greased pole. The Idiots ripped off taxpayers to hire a consultant to chart the fate of Douglas International Airport. Now the Idiots are trying to understand why the consultant (for which we paid a King's Ransom) stated that Douglas International Airport has been "spectacularly successful" while city-run; but out of the other side of their mouth stated the...
Monday, 6 May 2013
Not far from the shadows of Charlotte's Uptown towers, a group of more than 50 heavily armed men swarmed a cluster of three small homes on North Pine Street late Friday afternoon. By one witness account, a number of dark colored vans and black SUV's closed in on the homes from several different direction. Within seconds dozens of men wearing olive drab jumpsuits with no visible identification stormed into the three homes in a simultaneous attack.Witnesses reported...
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
A Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer was arrested Wednesday for allegedly falsifying time sheets for his second, off-duty job at the Arboretum Shopping Center.Jeffrey T. Taylor, 46, faces a felony charge of obtaining property by false pretense, records show.A criminal investigation shows Taylor falsified time sheets between October 2012 and January 2013, according to a CMPD news release.Taylor has worked at the police department for 24 years. Department...
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