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ADVOCATE ON KELLY INVESTIGATION 02/19/2010

SOME TIME AGO WE REPORTED A LIBERTY COUNTY SHERIFF’S CAPTAIN, HARRY KELLEY, WAS AT THE CENTER OF ONGOING INVESTIGATION BY THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS. INFORMATION INDICATED THEN THE INVESTIGATION INVOLVED FIREARMS MISSING FROM THE PROPERTY ROOM OF THE CLEVELAND POLICE DEPARTMENT BACK WHEN HARRY KELLEY WAS EMPLOYED THERE. HARRY KELLY CHANGED JOBS TO THE LIBERTY COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT, WHEN HIS SUPERVISOR AT THE CLEVELAND PD, HENRY PATTERSON, WAS ELECTED COUNTY SHERIFF. ACCORDING TO AN ARTICLE IN THE CLEVELAND ADVOCATE NEWSPAPER, UNNAMED ATF DOCUMENTS OUTLINE A NUMBER OF DETAILS OF THAT INVESTIGATION. ACCORDING TO THAT NEWSPAPER REPORT, HARRY KELLY IS SUSPECTED OF TRADING FIREARMS TAKEN FROM THE CLEVELAND POLICE PROPERTY ROOM TO A BUSINESS IN HUMBLE IN EXCHANGE FOR AMMUNITION AND FIREARM ACCESSORIES. THE REPORT SAID THOSE FIREARMS WERE INTENDED TO BE DESTROYED. THE NUMBER OF MISSING FIREARMS CITED IN THE CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER REPORT IS APPROXIMATELY 500. THE NEWSPAPER REPORT QUOTES ATF DOCUMENTS AS SAYING THESE FEDERAL AGENTS HAD RECOVERED 100 OF THOSE FIREARMS FROM AN HUMBLE BUSINESS CALLED THE SPORTSMAN OUTLET. THE REPORT ALSO QUOTES ATF DOCUMENTS AS SAYING PAPERWORK CERTIFYING THE GUNS WERE IN FACT DESTROYED WAS SIGNED BY HARRY KELLY, A CERTIFICATION NOW BELIEVED TO BE FALSE. THE NEWSPAPER REPORT SAID THE ATF INVESTIGATION ALSO INVOLVES LIBERTY COUNTY SHERIFF HENRY PATTERSON, WHO WAS CHIEF OF THE CLEVELAND POLICE DETECTIVE DIVISION DURING THE TIME THE MISSING WEAPONS WERE ALLEGEDLY MISAPPROPRIATED. ONE PORTION OF THE NEWSPAPER REPORTS QUOTES FORMER CLEVELAND POLICE CHIEF IKE HINES SAYING PATTERSON WAS ONE OF A NUMBER CLEVELAND POLICE OFFICERS WHO APPROACHED HIM WHEN HE WAS SERVING AS CHEF, SUGGESTING CONTRABAND FIREARMS BE SOLD TO GENERATE DEPARTMENT FUNDS. HINES SAID HE REFUSED THOSE SUGGESTIONS. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT AN UNNAMED, BUT A SOURCE CLOSE TO THE INVESTIGATION CONFIRMS THE INVESTIGATION THAT KSHN BELIEVES TO BE RELIABLE IS STILL ONGOING AND THAT NO INDICTMENTS OR CHARGES AGAINST ANYONE ARE EXPECTED IN THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE. TO DATE, NO ONE HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH ANY CRIME IN CONNECTION WITH THIS INVESTIGATION AND HARRY KELLY REMAINS ON ACTIVE DUTY AS A SUPERVISOR WITH THE LIBERTY COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT. ALL NINE NEWS SPOKE WITH SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT CHIEF DEPUTY JIM COOPER WHO SAID HE HAD NOT READ THE CLEVELAND ADVOCATE REPORT AND COULD NOT COMMENT ON IT. CHIEF COOPER SAID THE ATF HAS NOT MADE HIM AWARE OF ANY DETAILS OF THEIR INVESTIGATION AND THE SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT COULD NOT TAKE ACTION AGAINST KELLEY UNLESS OR UNTIL SOME SPECIFIC CHARGES OR COMPLAINTS WERE FILED. AGAIN, THE INVESTIGATION BY THE ATF IS STILL ONGOING. WE REPORTED ON SHERIFF’S CAPTAIN HARRY KELLY’S PREVIOUS PROBLEMS. THOSE INCLUDED ALLEGATIONS OF REAL ESTATE FRAUD WHEN HE WAS A LICENSED REAL ESTATE BROKER. FOR THAT HIS LICENSE WAS SUSPENDED. THERE IS ALSO A 10 DAY SUSPENSION FOR ADMITTING HE SENT A FAX INTENDED TO SLANDER CURRENT CLEVELAND POLICE CHIEF MARK BRADSHAW. KELLEY HAD WANTED THAT JOB BUT BRADSHAW WAS HIRED. ONE PORTION OF THE MOST RECENT CLEVELAND ADVOCATE STORY SAID CAPTAIN KELLY’S SUSPENSION WAS FOR USING THE COUNTY FIRING RANGE FOR HIS PERSONAL FIREARM CLASSES. AS WE REPORTED THAT QUESTION HAD INDEED BE RAISED, BUT NO FORMAL COMPLAINT WAS BROUGHT AND NO INVESTIGATION RESULTED. AS REPORTED, HARRY KELLY’S ACTUAL SUSPENSION FOR 10 DAYS WAS FOR SENDING THE ANONYMOUS FAX INTENDED TO HARM CLEVELAND PD CHIEF MARK BRADSHAW AND NOT FOR ANY IMPROPER USE OF THE FIRING RANGE. AGAIN, NO CHARGES OR INDICTMENTS HAVE BEEN FILED AGAINST SHERIFF’S CAPTAIN HARRY KELLY FROM THE ATF INVESTIGATION INTO FIREARMS SAID TO BE MISSING FROM THE CLEVELAND POLICE DEPARTMENT. HOWEVER, THE CLEVELAND ADVOCATE NEWSPAPER IS REPORTING SOME DETAILS OF THAT INVESTIGATION SAID TO HAVE BEEN TAKEN FROM ATF DOCUMENTS.