The embattled chief of the Graysville, Tenn., Police Department has been fired again.
Graysville City Recorder Tracey Pankey confirmed that Erik Redden, who was indicted by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation in 2014 but kept his job, was terminated Monday morning.
“He’s no longer an employee of the city of Graysville,” Pankey said.
Pankey would not disclose the grounds for Redden’s termination, but said that it had nothing to do with the previous charges against him.
Redden has a checkered history in the city’s top police post. He became police chief in the summer of 2012 after his predecessor, Thomas Mahoney, took a job with the Soddy-Daisy Police Department. In June 2014, he was indicted by the TBI on seven counts of official misconduct and three counts of theft stemming from nearly $4,000 in cash that went missing after a July 2013 drug bust. He was laid off a month later by the Graysville Mayor and Board of Commissioners only to be reinstated by the same body a few weeks later.
Redden still faces the charges brought against him in that case by 12th District Attorney General Mike Taylor, who said the case was set for plea or assignment sometime in the next few weeks.
Redden was unable to be reached for this story.