A Jonesborough police officer who resigned earlier this month amid a Facebook controversy that was likely to get him fired now owns his popular K9 partner, Rio, after the town agreed to sell the dog.
Officer Scottie Greene, who started with Jonesborough Public Safety in 2007, submitted his written resignation March 4 in the midst of an internal investigation about a post to his Facebook profile page.
It was the last in a string of infractions documented by the department in Greene’s personnel file, which the Press accessed through an Open Records request Friday.
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