Police in Maine say an officer accused of lying about a missing person case has been charged with several crimes, including a falsifying a report in which he claimed he had taken the missing man to a hospital
A Maine police officer accused of lying about a missing person case was charged with several crimes, including a falsifying a report in which he claimed he had taken the missing man to a hospital, police said. Washburn Police Sgt. Chandler Cole resigned from the police department after being charged with aggravated forgery, tampering with public records or information, falsifying physical evidence and unsworn falsification, according to court records.
Cole reported that he had picked up Erik Foote and dropped him off at a convenience store, but he told Foote's parents that he took him to the hospital. An investigation concluded Cole altered his report to reflect a hospital dropoff. But there is no hospital record to support the claim. Foote has yet to be located in a case that has riveted the community of 1,500 people, which has organized another search party to look for him this weekend.
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