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WAREHAM — Police Lt. Donald Bliss was fired by the interim town administrator, Chief Thomas Joyce said in a statement Tuesday, urging residents to show their support for Bliss as he appeals the decision.

A review by the Civil Service Commission is pending, Joyce said.

The commission is a quasi-judicial agency that hears and decides appeals of public employees under the protection of civil service laws, according to its Web site.

It says it ensures that employment decisions are based on the relative ability, knowledge and skills of the employee.

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Manchester corruption case end

The former assistant police chief of Manchester admitted Friday that he schemed with a drug dealer to burn down a building.

The guilty plea by Todd Roberts, 36, brings an end to a case that alleged pervasive corruption among officials in the Clay County seat.

Roberts pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy.

Roberts, who was assistant police chief from 1998 until two weeks ago, will be sentenced Nov. 19. He faces up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000, but he probably will get less than 20 years because of his plea.

Roberts was charged, along with former Mayor Daugh K. White, former city-county 911 director Vernon Hacker and former Councilman Darnell Hipsher, in a case that shocked local residents with allegations that the officials used the city as a racketeering enterprise for financial and political gain.

Roberts admitted that in 1999, he and Hacker got a drug dealer to burn down a vacant house that was blocking construction of a building to house the police department and 911 center.

He also admitted lying to a federal prosecutor when questioned about the fire in 1999.

An indictment charged that he also took part in drug trafficking by protecting the dealer who burned down the house and that he stole more than $5,000 that police had seized in investigations. The government plans to drop those charges as part of Roberts' plea.

White, Hacker and Hipsher pleaded guilty earlier and were required to testify against Roberts.

Roberts had maintained his innocence in a motion earlier this week, claiming that the case against him was based on lies from Hacker and others. But with the list of potential witnesses against him mounting and facing a potential maximum sentence of life in prison, Roberts decided to plead guilty.

Amul Thapar, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, said the citizens of Manchester deserved better from their elected leaders.

"Greed and corruption have no place in Kentucky, and our office will continue to prosecute those who place themselves before the needs of the citizens they serve," Thapar said.

All those named in the indictment were in office at the time they allegedly committed crimes, but all have since lost re-election, resigned or been fired.

 

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