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Recent Examples of sergeant
After the beating, another correction sergeant, Donald Slawson, mopped up the blood in the infirmary, preventing investigators from finding any blood spatter to analyze, prosecutors allege.
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Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 16 Apr. 2025
Thomas Spratt, the city’s first-ever motor sergeant, who worked with Schmidt on the ordinance.
—Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 29 Mar. 2025
Benjamin Therriault, a Richmond Police Department sergeant and union president, said the measure could have been helpful a few years ago during an internal investigation.
—Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 2 Apr. 2025
Brian Albert, a BPD sergeant who owned the property that was the site of O’Keefe’s death; Brian Higgins, an ATF agent and Albert’s friend who was there that night and has romantic interest in Read; and Colin Albert, Brian Albert’s nephew, who the defense argues had beef with O’Keefe.
—Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 30 Mar. 2025
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Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 16 Apr. 2025
Thomas Spratt, the city’s first-ever motor sergeant, who worked with Schmidt on the ordinance.
—Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 29 Mar. 2025
Benjamin Therriault, a Richmond Police Department sergeant and union president, said the measure could have been helpful a few years ago during an internal investigation.
—Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 2 Apr. 2025
Brian Albert, a BPD sergeant who owned the property that was the site of O’Keefe’s death; Brian Higgins, an ATF agent and Albert’s friend who was there that night and has romantic interest in Read; and Colin Albert, Brian Albert’s nephew, who the defense argues had beef with O’Keefe.
—Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 30 Mar. 2025
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“Sergeant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sergeant. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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