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Former Dewey Beach officer convicted for assaulting man on stretcher

Betsy PriceHeadlines, Police & Fire

A former Dewey Beach police officer has been convicted and sentenced to  a year of supervised probation for repeatedly punching an injured, unaggressive man laying on a stretcher and then lying about it. Gregory Lynch, who also lost his police certification and is banned from ever serving as a police officer again, was indicted in August 2019 after he climbed …