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Delaware News Journal
The Delaware Department of Justice has asked the courts to block the former police chief of Newport from becoming an elected commissioner of the town, stating his 2019 conviction for misdemeanor official misconduct disqualifies him from holding office.
A Delaware Online/The News Journal story published Monday reported that earlier this month Michael Capriglione received the most votes – 32 of about 1,000 residents – for an open seat as commissioner, a position that votes on town spending and other issues alongside two other commissioners and the mayor.
He is set to be sworn in on Thursday evening, but on Wednesday, Attorney General Kathleen Jennings filed paperwork in New Castle County Superior Court asking for his election to be nullified because of the crime that ousted him from the Newport Police Department, which he led for nearly four decades.