Detective Meghan Gay, who joined the vice unit in December 2019, regularly completed incident reports and warrants on behalf of Officer Omar Abdullah. These reports contained inaccurate or incomplete information, contributing to the wrongful arrests of over a dozen Black men on fabricated drug charges. While Gay testified in a deposition and is expected to […]
Sergeant William Rolfe, a supervisor in the vice unit, was informed by officers on numerous occasions that the alleged drugs in cases led by Officer Omar Abdullah were not heroin but brown sugar or another substance. Despite these reports, Rolfe did not intervene, allowing the wrongful arrests and prosecutions of over a dozen Black men […]
Officer Michelle Peele was fired in 2005 after she shot and killed Nyles Arrington while he attempted to take her car at a club on New Bern Avenue. She violated department policy that forbids officers from shooting at a moving vehicle except in certain circumstances. ## Officer Forum Links: – [Michelle Peele](https://watchaudits.com/forums/topic/michelle-peele/)
Master Police Officer P.W. Coates was involved in the fatal shooting of Reuel Rodriguez-Nunez in 2022. Rodriguez-Nunez, experiencing a mental health crisis, was setting cars on fire and throwing lit gasoline cups toward officers. Coates confronted him, leading to Rodriguez-Nunez throwing a lit cup in the officers’ direction, after which police opened fire. The Wake […]
Former detective Omar Abdullah was involved in a scheme from November 2019 to May 2020, where he conspired with a confidential informant to fabricate drug trafficking allegations against over a dozen Black men. The substances involved were repeatedly found to be fake. Abdullah was fired in October 2021 and pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice […]