Canton Police Det. Kevin Albert, positioned on paid administrative go away in June, faces extra “discipline” following an investigation into misconduct allegations.
Choose Board Chairman Michael Loughran, studying from a ready assertion in the beginning of a digital assembly Tuesday night time, revealed {that a} “resolution had been reached in a Canton Police personnel matter.”
The precise nature of Albert’s self-discipline and when it was handed out are unclear, with Loughran referring to the assertion when group members pressed him for particulars throughout public remark.
The assertion in full reads:
“The Canton Police Department hired an independent investigator who conducted a thorough investigation of the allegations of misconduct by Detective Albert.”
“Following the investigation, the Select Board reviewed the report and had an opportunity to question the investigator and Detective Albert about the scope and sufficiency of the investigation as well as the substance of the allegations.”
“The Select Board voted that discipline be imposed by the Chief of Police which Detective Albert has accepted.”
“Select Board member Chris Albert (Kevin Albert’s brother) recused himself from the hearing.”
Rafferty positioned the detective, who earned $176,387.91 in complete pay final 12 months, on paid administrative go away the day after embattled Massachusetts State Trooper Michael Proctor testified within the Karen Learn homicide trial, in June.
Canton officers waited a month to publicize Albert’s go away, saying it throughout a July 9 Choose Board assembly. The “outside, independent investigation … relative to (Albert’s) actions in a case he investigated with (Trooper) Michael Proctor approximately two years ago” additionally turned identified at the moment.
Proctor, pulled off responsibility the day the Learn homicide trial led to a mistrial and later suspended with out pay, testified that he and Albert had labored on a chilly case collectively, and the 2 had been consuming buddies.
Proctor additionally acknowledged he and Albert communicated about coordinating features of the Learn case though the Canton Police Division recused itself from the investigation as a result of Albert brothers’ connection to the case.
Albert is the brother of retired Boston Police Sgt. Brian Albert, who owned the Canton residence at 34 Fairview Street the place John O’Keefe’s bloody physique was discovered lined in snow the morning of Jan. 29, 2022.
O’Keefe was additionally a Boston police officer who died at age 46 when prosecutors allege Learn, 44, of Mansfield, backed her Lexus SUV into him at excessive velocity, leaving him to die within the chilly throughout a significant snowstorm.
Protection attorneys counter that exterior actors killed O’Keefe and conspired with state and native police to border Learn for his homicide.
Kevin Albert didn’t take the stand through the 9-week trial that featured testimony from 74 witnesses.
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