A June plea date has been set for the former head of the Criminal Investigation Division in the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office in his DUI vehicular assault case. The date signals that now-retired Maj. Chadwick Dickerson could be preparing to plead guilty.
Dickerson was allegedly impaired by alcohol last summer when he crashed his pickup into an SUV carrying a family of six southeast of Graham while off duty, injuring an 8-year-old boy and his 57-year-old grandmother and sending the rest of the occupants to a hospital. According to police reports, Dickerson spent the morning golfing in DuPont and dropped a friend off at their home before the wreck.
He was arrested at a medical facility after the collision. In November, Dickerson pleaded not guilty to two counts of felony DUI vehicular assault causing substantial bodily harm…