One of seven Mesa police employees embroiled in an on-patrol sex scandal has turned in his badge after 3 ½ years on the force, the Arizona Republic says.
Cory Hendon is the only officer in the scandal to resign so far. The head of the Mesa Police Association says that if it's likely he resigned on his own, that has to be respected.
The remaining six police workers - officers Kristopher Grover, Michelle Pohlo, Mark Rosales-Larkin, and Steven York, crime scene technician Kerry Giffin, and an unidentified police recruit - remain suspended with pay and await a disciplinary review board hearing, the Republic says. Decisions are expected by mid-September.
Police officials made no comment other than confirming Hendon's resignation.
Hendon apparently had had trouble earlier in his short Mesa police career, says the Republic. He was suspended 3 ½ weeks in 1997 for sending a "large volume" of "very…personal" computer messages from a department computer, despite being warned previously by a supervisor. And he was suspended again, later that year, for falsifying a traffic citation report and for insubordination.
