"Former city chief flashes badge; gets arrested"

Last year he had been:

"... renamed as an administrative chief after it was discovered he had not been a certified police officer in over 23 years..."

In Brackettville, Texas 78832.



Snippet from The Brackett News. Thursday, September 30, 2010.


"Thomas Nemia was arrested for false identification as a peace officer on Tuesday, September 21.

"Nemia was hired as the City of Brackettville's Police Chief in early 2009, but was soon renamed as an administrative chief after it was discovered he had not been a certified police officer in over 23 years.

"Nemia, a resident of Fort Clark Springs [across Highway 90 from Brackettville] is believed to have on or about the 22nd day of May, 2010, in the County of Kinney, State of Texas, ... did then and there provide to Verne Childress, Sr. a badge bearing an insignia of a law enforcement agency that identified the said Thomas Nemia as a peace officer and the said Thomas Nemia knew that he, the person so identified by the said badge bearing an insignia of [a] law enforcement agency, was [not] then and there commissioned as [a] peace officer as indicated on said badge, read court documents filed September 20..."

Meanwhile, back at the Kinney County rancho!

The sensational headline - grabbing June 2009, Gina Terrazas' traffic - stop case, is revisited:


"Neima was never charged with false identification in the Terrazas matter."


But!!


"Nemia is scheduled to appear in County Court for the Childress incident in December..."