Ketchikan police chief placed on leave after assault indictment
KETCHIKAN, Alaska (KTUU) - Ketchikan Police Chief Jeffrey Walls has been placed on leave, according to Ketchikan City Manager Delilah Walsh.Walls w...
KETCHIKAN, Alaska (KTUU) - Ketchikan Police Chief Jeffrey Walls has been placed on leave, according to Ketchikan City Manager Delilah Walsh.Walls was indicted by a Ketchikan grand jury on six charges including third-degree assault, which is classified as a felony. The charges stem from a Sept. 10 incident at the Salmon Falls Resort in Ketchikan where Walls allegedly pushed a man into a wall and put him into a chokehold after the man 'intentionally' stumbled into Walls' bar chair and that of his wife, according to charging documents.