FORKS — Religious beliefs, racial bigotry and one sergeant’s ambition to be chief were among the reasons three Forks Police Department employees should be fired, a report to Mayor Nedra Reed says.
Information for the report was gathered in November, and it was presented to Reed on Jan. 18.
All three employees were placed on paid administrative leave Jan. 28 and fired Feb. 26.
Copies of the report and of letters in which Reed fired Sgts. Tom Scott and Joelle Munger and Communications/Corrections Officer Deanna DeMatteis, were provided to Peninsula Daily News on Friday after the newspaper sought them under the Freedom of Information Act.
The 60-page report, written by the city’s consulting personnel attorney, describes a plot of which Scott was “the ringleader.”
It also cites an e-mail from DeMatteis, saying she referred to Forks Police Chief Mike Powell as “the evil sorcerer” who “might try to vaporize me with the death rays that he shoots from his eyes,” according to the report — a reference DeMatteis later described as kidding around.
