Sturgeon police chief asked to step down

Sturgeon’s chief of police was asked to resign Wednesday.

The request comes nearly a week after Chief Greg Halderman filed a complaint with the state attorney general’s office against a city councilman.

In the complaint, Halderman said Tyler Patterson came to City Hall March 9 and demanded the key to personnel files. The councilman then allegedly removed a file, copied it and left with the copy.

Wednesday, Mayor Gene Kelly wrote Halderman, stating that if he did not resign, a removal hearing would be held March 27 at 8:30 p.m.

Halderman was previously asked to resign in February 2015 when a city worker filed a complaint, saying that the chief pointed a gun at him in the police department lobby.

Halderman maintained he was testing the grip of another officer’s gun, and while he was panning across the room, he accidentally pointed the unloaded gun at the person, not knowing he was there.

Sturgeon’s Board of Aldermen voted in favor of keeping Halderman during that time.