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Former Ringgold, Georgia, employees allege city manager placed tracking device on police chief’s car

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A close up of a swithched rotating beacon of a police car. Cop car rooftop flashing lights outdoors. The top of the police patrol car with flasher and antennas. A patrol car lights. Accident police tile police car tile cop tile / Getty Images

Two former city of Ringgold, Georgia, employees allege that city manager Dan Wright placed a tracking device on former police Chief Dan Bilbrey’s car, saying it was one of the many reasons Bilbrey decided to step down.

Nina Bradley, an employee with the city for more than three years before her last day Wednesday, said she has knowledge that Wright had placed a tracking device on Bilbrey’s patrol car.

Donnie Mitchell, who worked for the water service department for the city of Ringgold for 30 years, also said he had heard secondhand that a maintenance employee put a tracking device on Bilbrey’s patrol car.

Bilbrey said he couldn’t comment on the situation.

Wright, when asked if he put a tracking device on the former police chief’s car, said, “The city of Ringgold does not discuss personnel matters.”