LRPD cops let a fellow intoxicated cop from Conway, Cebron Hackett, slip out of Little Rock after stripping naked and dancing at Discovery night club on October 13, 2019.
TV news coverage shows the LRPD cops treating Hackett much differently than they would have anyone else.
Their actions or rather lack of actions, violate their oaths of office and departmental policy.
Hackett should have been charges with public indecent exposure (Ark. Code Ann. 5-14-112) and public intoxication (Ark. Code Ann. 5-71-212).
Will they face any consequences. Doubtful. LRPD is Corrupt from the top down.
All three officers working off-duty side jobs claim the work was police related.
One of those cops should have been fired years ago when he lied in an internal and criminal investigation.
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| Curtis Van Pelt - Why is is still employed and FTR with his corrupt history? |
Officer Curtis Van Pelt was working an unauthorized off-duty side job at another club back in 2010 when he failed to file a report and take action on an incident that happened at Jazzi's.
Then during the internal and criminal investigation for that incident, Van Pelt contacted witnesses and tried to influence their statements and lied in an internal and criminal investigation.
Van Pelt got two days for the April violations.
And instead of getting fired for lying in the additional incident (his suspension letter says he was "untruthful") and having his law enforcement certification pulled, Van Pelt only got 30 days.
Curtis Van Pelt and about 50 other LRPD officers that have issues with credibility should not be police officers. We have all of them listed on our LRPD Liars List.
Van Pelt also had another brush with policy violations back in 1996 that did not result in a suspension.
Officer Kenneth Baker was suspended in 2014 for wrecking his patrol vehicle and making repairs on it with another officer.
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| Officer Kenneth Baker |
Baker got a day off for that.
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| Officer Chertieu Jones |
Jones failed to make an arrest (big surprise there) and used excessive force on a student at Henderson Middle School
Jones got 16 hours off and reassigned for those violations.
That leave us with Officer Kenneth Thompson, Jr.
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| Officer Kenneth Thompson, Jr. |
Thompson has not been suspended but apparently has a disciplinary history as well according to what LRPD stated in a FOI response to us.
"No releasable history" means that he violated a policy and got in trouble but was not suspended.
Thompson was the only officer not working off-duty that night and he is the officer that can be seen in the video from the Discovery club's CCTV recording in the video posted above.
It's crystal clear that all of these officers gave their buddy cop a break.
It's time for Chief Humphrey to clean house at his department.
If he can't or won't do it, then he need to move on too.
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Conway PD suspended officer Cebron "Chippendale" Hackett for 30 days.
Like most other police departments, Conway PD has policy that governs an officers behavior on and off-duty.
Hackett made a public apology on his personnel Facebook page.
This is not all of the problems Hackett is facing.
The city of Conway was just served notice of garnishment on an old debt he has refused to pay.
We guess that the title company involved in his home purchase this year missed that judgment against him that attaches to any real estate he owns in the state.
Stay tuned for updates!
