Wilkesboro really is NOT Mayberry! ...

.... unless you can picture Chief-of-Police Andy Taylor getting involved in a true-life story such as the following.

Our former Police Chief Gary Parsons was dismissed from his post by our ever vigilent town council after pleading guilty to five counts of private use of a publically owned vehicle and one count of willfully failing to discharge his duties as a law enforcement officer (which I believe involved telling officers not to investigate a bar owned by a friend of his for selling drugs*). The other charges, six felony indictments, one for embezzlement and the others for obtaining property by false pretenses, where dropped as part of the plea bargain. I think at this point everyone just wanted him out of office and a distant memory.

Alas, he is back in the news.

He was back in court with three counts of violating a domestic violence protective order and two counts of stalking. Apparently he has been acting kind of funny about his ex-girlfriend who reported him lying in the woods outside her house.

And you thought I lived in a quiet backward little community.



*Even though it was my favorite bar, I have no personal knowledge of any of this.