As the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office remains under fire for its handling of a senior officer’s arrest for suspected DUI and vehicular assault, Pierce County Sheriff Keith Swank joined “The Gee and Ursula Show” to discuss reprimanding Major Chadwick Dickerson and the comparisons between his major’s DUI arrest and his own from 2007.
Dickerson’s arrest showed discrepancies between law enforcement agencies over whether Dickerson exhibited any signs of alcohol use, and whether he left the scene of the accident after being told to remain until investigators arrived.
“Let me set the stage for you after the accident happened,” Swank said. “Major Dickerson insisted upon staying at the scene because he did not want to leave the scene to let anybody think that he did a hit-and-run or anything like that. It was obvious to the supervisor, the sergeant there on the scene, that he was injured. It was obvious to fire personnel that he was injured. Three ambulances showed up, and they transported the victims of the other vehicle, I think there were six or seven of them, to various hospitals. After those three ambulances left, there were no ambulances left to take Major Dickerson anywhere…