Prosecutors have dropped two remaining charges against a former Georgia police chief and a top aide two months after the state’s highest court threw out an indictment charging the men with violating their oaths of office.
A Superior Court judge granted on Tuesday prosecutors’ motion to withdraw pending charges of influencing a witness and subornation of perjury against former Glynn County Police Chief John Powell and his former chief of staff, Brian Scott.
District Attorney Joe Mulholland’s decision to drop the case ends a four-year effort to prosecute Powell and Scott for what prosecutors called an illegal effort to cover up a narcotics officer’s improper relationship with a confidential informant.
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