Former Algona chief accused of theft, abuse of power - The Seattle Times
Algona Police Department’s former interim police chief is accused of shredding documents, carting off files, wiping clean his department-issued iPad and instructing at least one witness not to cooperate with investigators digging into his alleged... Early this year, Hill said he decided to remove Gaskill from the interim chief position, citing “a bunch of little things” that led him to believe Gaskill wasn’t qualified to lead the department. Around the same time, Hill was driving through the parking lot of City Hall and noticed Gaskill’s department-issued Chevrolet Tahoe had normal license plates instead of plates indicating it was a government vehicle. Hill asked another officer to run the license plates and discovered the vehicle was registered under a fictitious name as privately owned, Hill said. That weekend and the following Monday, Gaskill was observed — by a fellow officer as well as on the city’s video-surveillance system — shredding a large number of documents and carting files from his office to his vehicle, according to Hill and... A few days later, Sumner’s city administrator contacted Algona’s city administrator after discovering irregularities in. Source: www.seattletimes.com
