Dracut police chief stands by deputy in gun incident

Police Chief Kevin Richardson said yesterday he has opened a preliminary inquiry into whether his off-duty deputy chief had been drinking when he showed up to a 911 domestic call for a man with a shotgun and wound up almost getting shot by his own officers.

[nra]

guns and alcohol dont mix ........unless your a pig with a badge

[Joe Montana]

nra wrote:

guns and alcohol dont mix ........unless your a pig with a badge

You forgot to mention weed too.

[DCH]

something needs to be done about this dept.

[what]

so chris you will get drunk with Charty but not at my house!

[Hey]

What king of light bulb did he have on his front porch?

[Info]

Why does the story refer to the friends as "bikers". Seems like an effort to paint the other people in the situation in a bad light to distract the reader that Chartrand was intoxicated. Maybe not "highly intoxicated", but drinking nonetheless.

[Good Move]

He is lucky that he didn't get shot! All he had to do was make a cell phone call to hs police department and let them know that he was there and had the shotgun in his possession. Sounds like Chartrand is a loose cannon!

[me to]

Good thing he wasn"t a ordinary citizen. he would have been arrested then lost any chance to own a firearm. Like allways two sets of standards ,one for the cops+ one for joe public.

[Lowell Eyes]

"Jerry Flynn, executive director of the union that represents Dracut police officers, the New England Police Benevolent Association, accused Chartrand of being too drunk to hear the police commands."

Sound familar, Jerry Flynn again, what a waste of union money, the members should be so proud of that drunk, Flynn. Good comment, "too drunk to hear", you should know, you've got experience. Put Flynn on the Kazanjian ticket on the next union vote.

An off-duty police officer does his job to avoid a possible serious altercation and there's Flynn.

[LOL]

Chartrand is Richardson's MIni-Me and can do no wrong as long as the Chief is in power. Either way this will be squashed with all the other crap he pulls in the department. More than half the DPD can't stand this guy and its as divided as it can be. I'd hate to have to put my life on the line with so called brothers backing me.

[hahaha]

Just thought I'd share a funny story about the DPD. One night me and my bf were bringing the garbage out for the trash next day and there was a skunk so he started shooting it with his bb gun and then we went in the house and about an hour later the cops were banging on my door. They said my neighbor called about gun shots and I said to the cop well that was like an hour ago and he said they were BACKED UP...omg backed up?? You get a call for gun shots in a neighborhood and you take an hour to get there...REAL NICE JOB YOU GUYS ARE DOING!! iF IT WAS A REAL GUN WITH A REAL SHOOTER HE COULD HAVE TAKEN OUT HALF OF DRACUT BEFORE THE COPS DECIDED TO GET OFF THERE ASSES AND DO SOMETHING. But the best part is feeling NOT safe because you know they could take that long if it was a real emergancy...gald to know the dracut cops work so well!

[joe]

hey , good thing it was in dracut.......chelmsford cops would have capped his a...a leave-time is upon i thinks

[local 103]

If the electrician were a union guy he would taken the gun from the suspect

[dracut resident]

hahaha wrote:

Just thought I'd share a funny story about the DPD. One night me and my bf were bringing the garbage out for the trash next day and there was a skunk so he started shooting it with his bb gun and then we went in the house and about an hour later the cops were banging on my door. They said my neighbor called about gun shots and I said to the cop well that was like an hour ago and he said they were BACKED UP...omg backed up?? You get a call for gun shots in a neighborhood and you take an hour to get there...REAL NICE JOB YOU GUYS ARE DOING!! iF IT WAS A REAL GUN WITH A REAL SHOOTER HE COULD HAVE TAKEN OUT HALF OF DRACUT BEFORE THE COPS DECIDED TO GET OFF THERE ASSES AND DO SOMETHING. But the best part is feeling NOT safe because you know they could take that long if it was a real emergancy...gald to know the dracut cops work so well!

Good story......I had over $8,000 dollars of stuff stolen from my home. A neighbor of the " suspect" told us he saw him with the stolen items, we told the police and guess what? Nothing happened. What a surprise. Also, a friend of ours is a police detective in nh, he called the DPD to see if he could get some info regarding another case and they hung up on him!!!! What a joke,

[jimmy C]

If he was a union electrician he would have been sleeping like the rest of you.

[nonunion1]

If he was a union electrician he would have been sleeping like the rest of 103

[Friend of Bill]

This deputy obviosusly suffers from a diseased of which the number one symptom is denial. He is crying out for help. Richardson is an enabler.

[Arte]

I bet if the off duty cop did get shot, the police dept would find no wrong doings by any of the officers involved.

[Sammy J]

Chartrand is a drunk. Seen him around town quite a bit when he has had too much to drink.

[hahaha]

The whole town of Dracut is in trouble with these so called cops. There all a joke. They just handed out badges to random people on the street and picked the smarter one to be chief... they've shown us that they are real good at acting like they do something but most of the time you just see them parked somewhere...GOOD JOB protecting the towns parking lots!!