Police Report Involving Alderman Costs City $1K
Release of the peace disturbance report involved five hours of legal research by the city attorney.
A request by Wentzville Patch for a police report on a peace disturbance involving Wentzville Alderman Rick Stokes may have cost the city nearly $1,000 in attorney's fees, according to city officials. The cost appeared out of line with the cost for similar reports requested by Patch—including one from the same department in August. The police report was in regards to an Aug. 8 incident at Wentzville's Buffalo Wild Wings, where another Buffalo Wild Wings customer, Jason Johns, accused Stokes of not washing his hands in the bathroom. When Johns confronted Stokes in the parking lot of the restaurant, Stokes tried to pull out of his parking space before calling police. The incident had already been reported as part of the regular police …
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S Lopez
8:55 am on Thursday, November 15, 2012
The bill will be paid by the taxpayers. Yes, you and me! I am disenchanted with this board that next election cycle will not be status quo. We need a new group of people leading our city. Ask any employee in the city and if they aren't too afraid of losing their job they will tell you about the dictators we have sitting in the board's seats. It is do it their corrupt way or the highway. more ›