Benny Napoleon, Michigan Sheriff and Ex-Detroit Police Chief, Dies at 65
Sheriff Napoleon served for more than a decade in the Michigan county that includes Detroit, and ran unsuccessfully for the city’s mayor.
Sheriff Benny Napoleon of Wayne County, Mich., died Thursday after testing positive for the coronavirus.Credit...Joshua Lott for The New York Times
Published Dec. 18, 2020Updated March 19, 2021
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WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. — Benny Napoleon, the sheriff of Wayne County in Michigan and a former Detroit police chief who ran unsuccessfully for mayor of the city, died on Thursday in a hospital there. He was 65.