Officer fired...drunk driver leaves checkpoint
Story Created: Jul 30, 2010 at 4:45 PM America/New_York
FORT MYERS, Fla. - A Fort Myers police officer was fired for letting a drunk driver leave a checkpoint.
An internal investigation said Officer Mikue Cela allowed a drunk driver to leave a checkpoint back in March, and lied about it afterwards.
Cela had been with the department since 2001.
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