Answering lawsuit, Brevard says former officer made ‘false allegations’

The city of Brevard denies wrongdoing in a lawsuit in which it’s accused of wrongfully firing a police sergeant last spring. That’s according to an April 28 federal court filing in the Western District of North Carolina.

In April 2025, former Brevard Police Department Sergeant Wilson Bunn sued the city, City Manager Wilson Hooper and then-Police Chief Thomas Jordan, alleging that he was fired in retaliation for speaking to an outside attorney about missing evidence in the department’s evidence room, the Times-News previously reported.

In the new filing, attorneys for the defendants Katie Weaver Hartzog and Dan M. Hartzog deny this…

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