Indicted Pine Bluff Officer Still On Payroll
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
A Pine Bluff police officer indicted last
month on charges that he lied to federal officials will remain on
the payroll while the investigation continues.
A federal grand jury indicted Officer Reuben Bledsoe Junior on
charges that he made fraudulent statements to the U-S Department of
Housing and Urban Development in order to receive a rent subsidy.
At an arraignment in federal court, Magistrate Jerry Cavaneau
allowed Bledsoe to continue to carry a weapon, and waived a
requirement for drug testing in an order setting conditions for
Bledsoe`s release.
Pine Bluff police say the department addressed the issue in
2001, when Bledsoe was fired and then reinstated by the Civil
Service Commission.
