ROANOKE, VA. (WFXR) – An audit found that the Roanoke Police Department (RPD) overspent a $300,000 state gun violence prevention grant. Mike Crawley, the Roanoke Deputy Chief of Police says the City of Roanoke received the grant in 2020.
The funding was used to support RPD’s Rapid Engagement of Support in the Event of Trauma (RESET) program, which provides mentoring services for at-risk teens referred through courts, schools or families.
Crawley says the program used a contracted vendor to provide those mentoring services…