LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police officers in a Las Vegas suburb conspired to cover up a car crash involving an off-duty coworker, according to records obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Henderson Police Chief Hollie Chadwick also ignored recommendations to fire the officers and eventually reinstated them, the newspaper reported. It took about six months for the city to release recordings of 911 calls, police body camera footage and other records related to the April 2021 crash.
Witnesses had indicated the evening of the crash that the off-duty officer appeared to be intoxicated. No one was hurt in the crash and charges were never filed.
The previous police administration, under Chief Thedrick Andres, had recommended that Sgt. John Bellow and Officers Marissa Myers and Katherine Cochran — who was suspected of driving intoxicated — be fired for lying and falsifying a police report, according to records that were part of a months-long internal investigation.
Instead, Chadwick reversed the termination recommendations and issued minor discipline in the case, the newspaper reported.