SAN DIEGO — A 20-year veteran of the San Diego Police Department says high-ranking police officers retaliated against him, harassed him and refused to promote him in favor of his ex-wife, who he alleges had romantic ties to now Chief of Police Scott Wahl.
In a newly-filed lawsuit, obtained by CBS 8, Officer Tyler Cockrell says his supervisors purposely passed him over for promotions, and refused to investigate allegations that his ex-wife, police officer Stephanie Audette, was stalking him and his new girlfriend, also a police officer, harassing them, and placed a tracking device on his vehicle.
He alleges the mistreatment stemmed from what he describes as an “inappropriate relationship” between Audette and Wahl, and claims that Wahl protected Audette from a previous termination order…