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DALLAS – Dallas Police Chief Daniel Comeaux terminated four employees on Monday following disciplinary hearings.<\/p>\n
Dallas Police Employees Fired <\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
At the end of the hearings, two Dallas police officers and two employees from the Dallas Police Department\u2019s communications division were fired.<\/p>\n
Sr. Cpl. Sarah Lenhart was fired for violating department personnel rules of conduct. She was assigned to the Southeast Patrol Division and had been with the department for 20 years.<\/p>\n
Officer Nakisha Cardwell was fired after being arrested in Mesquite for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol. She was hired in 2018 and worked in the South-Central Patrol Division.<\/p>\n
Sanjuana Gonzalez, who worked in the communications division as a police dispatch analyst, was fired for being absent without a leave from duty assignment.<\/p>\n
And Karen Guiterrez, who also worked in the communications division as a 911 call analyst, was fired for unapproved leave without pay due to excessive absences.<\/p>\n
What we don’t know:<\/p>\n
DPD did not release the circumstances surrounding each termination or pictures of the officers.<\/p>\n
Dallas Officer Suspended <\/p>\n
Dig deeper:<\/p>\n
Another Dallas police officer, Sgt. Daylon Grandberry, was suspended for 15 days following Monday\u2019s disciplinary hearings.<\/p>\n
While the department would not comment on the reason for his suspension, the Dallas Police Women\u2019s Association<\/a> shared a post on social media accusing him of invading a female subordinate officer\u2019s privacy.<\/p>\n The Source: FOX 4 gathered information for this story from Dallas Police Department news releases and a statement from DPD.<\/p>\n Dallas Police Department<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Dallas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article DALLAS – Dallas Police Chief Daniel Comeaux terminated four employees on Monday following disciplinary hearings. Dallas Police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1046,102,581,104,103,401,223,1827,216,393],"class_list":["post-398233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-police","tag-news","tag-organization","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}