TOWNSEND — He served as a Delaware assistant deputy attorney general prosecuting child support cases.
Sgt. Earl McCloskey also worked as a police officer in Delaware City and Elsmere.
For a couple years, he directed the Delaware Justice Information System.
Now, Sgt. McCloskey is with the Townsend Police Department and earned recognition as the 2023 Delaware Crime Stoppers Robert J. Seinsoth Law Enforcement Officer of the Year for his work there.
The award was fueled by Sgt. McCloskey’s investigation of a juvenile rape case that began last summer and concluded with an adult’s conviction.
Sgt. McCloskey described any investigation as “a puzzle. A lot of stuff has to fall together. Delaware is a tough state to procesute anything so I was fortunate in this case.”
Even with the good work, Sgt. McCloskey said the award “was totally not anticipated. My chief (Bob Longo) is a great person and unbeknownst to me he put me up for the Delaware Crime Stoppers Award which is a great award for any officer to get.”