A Pennsylvania police chief who allegedly threatened to 'make up a fake arrest' in retaliation to
Facebook posts got charged with a civil rights violation
A federal court
charged a police chief with a civil rights violation after he allegedly told a man that he could "make up a fake arrest" and jail him.
Brian Buglio, a 45-year-old police chief employed with the West Hazleton Police Department in Pennsylvania, "threatened a private citizen with criminal charges" in March, a press release from the Justice Department says.
Buglio told Paul Delorenzo to remove social media posts that were critical of his work as police chief, Delorenzo said to WNEP,
a local TV news station affiliated with ABC News. Delorenzo on Facebook criticized the chief and the department, saying they were "slow to make an arrest" in a case they said involved him.
"He called me, left me a voicemail, and said that he was going to arrest me for a crime that was being investigated for something I've never even done or had any part of," Delorenzo said to WNEP.
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