Former deputies say they repeatedly reported a Texas sheriff who’s faced years of complaints about dysfunction and corruption to state and federal law enforcement.
FILE - San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers answers a question after a news conference, Sunday, April 30, 2023, in Cleveland, Texas. Capers’ turn in the national spotlight after an April mass shooting belied years of complaints about corruption and dysfunction that were previously unknown outside the piney woods of San Jacinto County.
The small, Houston-area sheriff's office drew national scrutiny amid a four-day search for a man accused of killing five neighbors in April when they complained that his late-night shooting was. The sheriff’s office disclosed in response to AP's questions that deputies took nearly four times as long as Capers initially said to arrive at the mass shooting.
Capers did not respond to requests for comment. His second-in-command previously called the accusations against the sheriff “straight-up lies,” stressed their “good working relationship” with the Rangers and said the state agency is welcome to investigate their office"top to bottom.”Flynt, a veteran Houston-area officer who Capers personally recruited, said he drove to the regional state police office in the fall of 2017.
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