Dougherty once again proves she can't get her facts straight

Kerry Dougherty manages to once again go off the deep end in her efforts to protect the Chesapeake Police Department from scandal:

In a front-page story in The Pilot last week, Turnbull not only claimed to be one of the confidential informants Chesapeake police relied upon to get a search warrant for the address of suspected drug dealer Ryan Frederick earlier this year, but he said the cops knew in advance that he and another thief were going to burglarize Frederick's property.

Ryan Frederick - as everyone in Hampton Roads knows by now - is charged with capital murder for the death of Detective Jarrod Shivers, who was shot while trying to execute a search warrant at Frederick's house Jan. 17.

Because Turnbull has gone public, Chesapeake police Chief Kelvin Wright says he's now free to ignore departmental policy that would preclude him from talking about informants.

Turnbull is lying, the chief told me Wednesday.

Here's what we do know:

• His home was burglarized.
• In two interviews, Turnbull shows a remarkable amount of knowledge about how the burglaries went down and familiarity with the chief suspect behind them.
• The police conveniently left out that their probable cause evidence for the search warrant for Frederick's house was based on tainted evidence obtained through a crime.
• The prosecution has acknowledged that burglars were involved.
• The police acknowledge that they had been working with their primary "informant" for many months before the raid.
  
• The prosecution has put forth no evidence suggesting that they got their probable cause evidence through licit means.

I think it's pretty safe to say that when you add up the fact that the burglar(s) seem to have an uncanny knowledge of the marijuana that Frederick had, the fact that the "informants" had been in contact with the police since a few months before the raid and that the police have actively denied a relationship between the burglary and the informant, you get good reason to believe that the Chief is either misinformed by his subordinates or outright lying.