In June 2013 Ken Cross, an employee of OCSE who main job
function is a process server, was caught wearing a North Little Rock Police
badge and signing documents as “Lt. Cross” and threating to have people
arrested if they did not call him.
Cross retired from the North Little Rock Police Department in 1997 at the rank of lieutenant. Cross was initially not chosen for promotion to lieutenant in 1982. Cross filed a lawsuit against the NLRPD about not being promoted which went all the way to the Arkansas Supreme Court in 1984 (One Justice said it looked like the NLRPD did not want to promote Cross and another stated that Cross was at the bottom of the list). After retirement Cross held jobs with trucking companies until when 1999 OCSE was able to offer process server positions. NLRPD has confirmed that Cross would have been able to keep his NLRPD badge due the rank he held upon retirement.
After OCSE received a complaint about “Lt. Cross”, they purchased Cross a badge and told him to stop using his former NLRPD rank.
OCSE tried to cover up and minimize Cross’ deceptive
tactics, but his actions of pretending to be something that he was not and
threating bogus warrants was/is despicable and behavior that damages the
reputation of and undermines the public trust in DFA/OCSE.
documents: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6bAeBjaZ__rYmdsVzZmNWJobGc/edit?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6bAeBjaZ__rbXhDb3lHQ2x1UkU/edit?
usp=sharing
documents: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6bAeBjaZ__rYmdsVzZmNWJobGc/edit?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6bAeBjaZ__rbXhDb3lHQ2x1UkU/edit?
usp=sharing
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| "Lt." Cross wearing his old NLRPD issued badge |
