FALL RIVER The Fall River Police Department has more than $3.2 million in unfunded liability in police officers comp time, due to years of collective bargaining agreements and past practice obligations often during some of the city s fiscally leanest times.
And according to a recently completed outside audit by a Boston-based police consulting firm, nearly $1.48 million accounts for time owed to police personnel that exceeds a federally mandated cap of 480 hours of accumulated comp time per officer.
Those findings were the focus of a report completed and submitted to Mayor Paul Coogan and Fall River Police Chief Jeffrey Cardoza last month. It will be presented to the City Council on June 22, and the report was authored by The Edward Davis Company, owned by former Boston police commissioner by the same name.
A Fall River man caught trafficking large amounts of cocaine while out on bail for another case just months earlier has been sentenced to state prison.
The Herald News
FALL RIVER A 32-year-old Fall River man arrested twice within a six month time frame for trafficking large amounts of cocaine was sentenced to serve five to eight years in state prison recently, Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III announced.
Bryan Semidey pleaded guilty on May 17th to two indictments charging him with two counts of trafficking in excess of 36 grams of cocaine.
According to a press release from the DA s office, on May 22, 2019 the Fall River Police Department s Vice Unit executed a search warrant at 435 Fourth Street, apt. 1S in Fall River. Bryan Semidey was the target. At 1:30 pm, the detectives entered the apartment with K9 Capone assisting in the search of the apartment. In the basement, after being alerted by the K9, police located a bag with approximately 300 grams of cocaine in it hidden behind some bricks. Two more bags of cocaine and a scale were found behind a picture in the hallway outside of Semidey’s ap