CANANDAIGUA \u2014 A former Geneva police officer will be prohibited from working in law enforcement in New York State following his plea to a drug charge last week, the special prosecutor in the case said Monday.<\/p>\n
Nathan Jacon, who resigned from the Geneva Police Department last August, pleaded guilty to seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance in Ontario County Court, said Wayne County District Attorney Christine Callanan, the special prosecutor in the case.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis case involved conduct that carried consequences far beyond the criminal charge itself,\u201d Callanan said. \u201cAs a result of this plea, the defendant has been decertified and can no longer serve as a police officer in New York. Public trust in law enforcement is essential and when that trust is compromised, accountability must follow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jacon originally was charged by the Ontario County Sheriff\u2019s Office with fifth-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell, seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, and official misconduct.<\/p>\n
Jacon was charged a week after three others were indicted on drug charges, including two members of the city police department, Michael Tapscott and David Felice. Also charged was a member of the Hobart and William Smith Colleges Public Safety, William B. McGowan, who was accused of tampering with physical evidence.<\/p>\n
The status of the cases involving Felice and McGowan was not available as of Monday morning.<\/p>\n
Tapscott will spend 16 weekends in jail, along with getting five years\u2019 probation, as part of a February plea to multiple drug charges in Ontario County Court.<\/p>\n
Callanan, also the special prosecutor in Tapscott\u2019s case, said he agreed to a plea after being indicted on additional drug charges Feb. 19. He is scheduled to be sentenced by Ontario County Court Judge Fred Reed May 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CANANDAIGUA \u2014 A former Geneva police officer will be prohibited from working in law enforcement in New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[1655,10322,10321,13949,28998,65,13468,13946,68,67,10320,10323,13945,13480,13943,72,36582,13944,71],"class_list":["post-67585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-crime","tag-criminal-justice","tag-criminal-law","tag-criminal-procedure","tag-drug-prohibition","tag-geneva","tag-issues-in-ethics","tag-judiciaries","tag-justice","tag-law","tag-law-enforcement","tag-legal-action","tag-legal-procedure","tag-misconduct","tag-plea","tag-police","tag-police-officer","tag-prosecutor","tag-public-law"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116597081264139318","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}