Algona Police Department’s former interim police chief is accused of shredding documents, carting off files, wiping clean his department-issued iPad and instructing at least one witness not to cooperate with investigators digging into his alleged theft of thousands of dollars from a youth program he helped start in South King County, according to prosecutors.
Lee Gaskill was charged Tuesday with first-degree theft and abuse of office and was issued a summons to appear for arraignment at the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent on Aug. 17, said Dan Donohoe, a spokesman for King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg.
Gaskill, 43, of Bonney Lake, resigned from the police department April 24, the same day he was to appear for a disciplinary hearing, Algona Mayor Dave Hill said.