LEFT TO RIGHT: COUNCIL PRESIDENT TRIPPI CONGO, MAYOR MIKE PURZYCKI, POLICE CHIEF ROBERT TRACY The mayor of Wilmington and the union that represents the city’s police officers are pushing back against the City Council president’s claims that the department is failing to promote diversity and morale within its ranks. After leading the City Council to a Jan. 20 vote of …
New Castle County has settled a federal lawsuit brought by six current and former female county police officers against the department’s former second-highest ranking officer. The plaintiffs include Capt. Laura O’Sullivan, Capt. Patricia Davies, Senior Cpl. Jessica Neipris, Ret. Master Cpl. Lynda Scelsi, Ret. Master Cpl. Margaret Ellwein, and Lori Kane. Each officer alleged sexual harassment and misconduct by former …
Chief Robert Tracy/Wilmington Police Department A petition expressing support for the Wilmington Police Department has gathered more than 600 signatures after the Wilmington City Council on Thursday passed a “vote of no confidence” in Chief Robert Tracy. The vote happened after a nearly three-hour-long Public Safety Committee meeting Tuesday during which Tracy and others defended the department’s practices amidst claims …
On Jan. 24, 2002, a partially decomposed body was found by construction workers in a vacant home in the 1400 block of W. Third Street in Wilmington.
