Crime & Safety
Police Chief Says Plymouth Nearly Lost Hundreds of Thousands of DOJ Funding
Newly eased relations with feds should help department keep drug forfeiture money, misspent in the past by ousted city officials.
(Originally published on Dec. 7, 2016) PLYMOUTH TOWNSHIP, MI — Police Chief Tom Tiderington told the new township board Tuesday that relations between the city and the Department of Justice appear to be mended, but a scandal involving misspent tens of thousands of dollars in drug forfeiture money could have been disastrous for the city's police force, The Plymouth Observer reports.
The Justice Department threatened to "extinguish" Plymouth Township from a drug forfeiture program after details of the former township board's misuse of the money surfaced in federal audits, Tiderington told a newly elected township board Tuesday. In its final session, the former board voted to repay $83,397 from the township general fund.
That should satisfy the Justice Department, Tiderington said.
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