Officer Cody Atkinson had been with the department about six years. He was assigned to the Patrol Bureau when an investigation began into “several incidents...
According to police, Atkinson did not respond to a scene in October after being sent to a domestic disturbance call with another officer and was untruthful about his location.
However, the department said, a police report shows Atkinson took custody of the property Jan. 5. Fort Worth police said Atkinson “supplemented the report with a false statement” that said he lost the property in his vehicle and then found the property and tagged it the day after it was seized.
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