Roanoke postal worker charged with threatening to kill boss
Published: August 8, 2008
ROANOKE, Va. (AP) - A 59-year-old postal worker in Roanoke faces up to eight years in prison after being indicted for allegedly threatening his supervisor.
Federal prosecutors say Samuel Davis Kemp was indicted Thursday. Kemp works as a mail handler at the U.S. Postal Service Processing and Distribution Center in Roanoke.
According to the indictment, last month Kemp was called into the supervisor’s office to address the concern that he allegedly was under the influence of alcohol while on duty. Officials called police to have Kemp removed after he became belligerent and allegedly threatened to kill his supervisor.
He is charged with one count of forcibly assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding, intimidating and interfering with his supervisor while he was engaged in his official duties.
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Looking closely at this account of employee misconduct, I see no verification of the supervisor’s claim of intoxification on the employee’s part. Could this be a case of official misconduct? The Post Office is known to direct its’ Inspectors at it’s whim, not as a public policeman might be used. Postal Management has authority over the Postal Inspection Service to over-ride their investigations, subverting justice by treating them as a company owned private police/security force.
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