Severino IA Report on DuBois
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In this internal affairs report, an investigator rules that two Edison patrolmen, Paul Pappas and Christopher Sorber, used excessive force in their arrest of a man who refused to hand over a pill bottle. After a lawsuit was filed in the case, Chief Thomas Bryan ordered a new probe with a different investigator, who cleared the officers of wrongdoing. Bryan says he ordered the new investigation because the original one was incomplete. The lawsuit settled for $100,000 in February.