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$430,000 Settlement in North Carolina Police Department’s Failure to Enforce Protective Order

North Carolina’s Jonesville Police Department paid $430,000 to a lawsuit filed by Vernatta Cockerham, who claimed the police department failed to enforce a restraining order she had taken out against her estranged husband, Richard Ellerbee, on November 13, 2002.

Cockerham says that she informed Chief Tim Gwyn and Officer Scott ...

 

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