NC town’s sidelined police to resume patrols

SPRING LAKE, N.C. — A North Carolina town’s police force will return to work next week, nine months after being stripped of law enforcement authority amid a criminal investigation.

Multiple media outlets reported Friday that Spring Lake Police Chief Tory McDuffie will allow officers to resume patrols Monday.

Cumberland County deputies assumed control of law enforcement in Spring Lake in May after the arrests of two officers.

A sergeant was indicted on charges he participated in a home invasion in which three men were held at gunpoint, and also asked subordinate officers to fake a report about a September raid in which $2,900 was seized. A second sergeant was charged with stealing money from the police department’s evidence room and trying to cover it up.

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