Lawrence police chief controversy pits mayor against former top Mass. public safety official

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Lawrence police chief controversy pits mayor against former top Mass. public safety official

An ongoing controversy in Lawrence, Massachusetts, is providing conflicting accounts from the city’s mayor and the state’s former public safety secretary, the person hired to investigate alleged misconduct involving the acting police chief. As the NBC10 Boston Investigators have reported, the POST Commission suspended William Castro’s law enforcement certification last March. The acting chief continued collecting his $210,000 salary from home wh…

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The mayor of Lawrence, Massachusetts, Brian DePeña, speaks exclusively to Telemundo New England to give his version of the controversy surrounding who was provisional chief of police, William Castro. He was suspended by the “POST” Commission in March 2024, the date from which he remained under administrative license until he was reinstated to the city administration, on January 21 as head of the mayor’s cabinet. Castro was suspended by POST as h…