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  • PROSECUTORS HAVE FILED CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST ANOTHER

  • SPOKANE POLICE OFFICER IN CONNECTION WITH A SEXUAL

  • ASSAULT INVESTIGATION

  • SERGEANT JOHN GATELY IS ACCUSED OF RENDERING CRIMINAL

  • ASSISTANCE TO RAPE SUSPECT sergeant GORDON ENNIS.

  • KXLY FOUR'S JEFF HUMPHREY JOINS US LIVE, JEFF INVESTIGATORS

  • THINK GATELY TIPPED ENNIS OFF?

  • SPECIFICALLY, THAT SGT.

  • GATELY WARNED ENNIS THAT SHERIFF'S DETECTIVES WERE

  • TRYING TO GET A SEARCH WARRANT TO OBTAIN SAMPLES OF

  • ENNIS' D-N-A AND BIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE THAT MIGHT BE

  • ON HIS HANDS.

  • DEPUTIES SAY 16 JUST MINUTES PASSED BETWEEN THE TIME

  • GATELY KNEW THE INVESTIGATIVE PLAN AND HIS SECOND

  • PHONE CALL TO SGT ENNIS.

  • ACCORDING TO COURT DOCUMENTS, GATELY FIRST BECAME

  • AWARE OF THE CRIMINAL CASE AGAINST ENNIS BECAUSE GATELY

  • IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE SPOKANE POLICE GUILD.

  • ACCORDING TO INVESTIGATORS.

  • THAT'S WHEN GATELY CALLED THE SUSPECT AT P.M IN A

  • CONVERSATION THAT LASTED APPROXIMATELY ONE MINUTE.

  • GATELY WHO ALSO SERVES ON THE DEPARTMENT'S PEER ASSISTANCE

  • TEAM, A GROUP THAT HELPS OFFICER IN CRISIS.

  • CHIEF RICK DOBROW /SPOKANE POLICE DEPT 52;51 sometimes

  • they are privy to some information that is not released

  • to the general population of the the organization,

  • of course not any type of information that would compromise

  • any type of investigation 53;05

  • BUT SHERIFF'S DETECTIVES SAY THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED.

  • THAT AS A PEER ASSISTANCE TEA MEMBER GATELY LEARNED

  • SHERIFF'S DETECTIVES WERE TRYING TO GET A SEARCH WARRANT

  • FOR ENNIS' DNA AT SUNDAY MORNING.

  • JUST 16 MINUTES LATER GATELY WAS BACK ON THE PHONE

  • TO ENNIS.

  • ACCORDING TO INVESTIGATORS AT APPROXIMATELY SGT.

  • GATELY CALLED THE SUSPECT GORDON ENNIS AND HAD A PHONE

  • CONVERSATION LASTING APPROXIMATELY 6 MINUTES AND 33

  • SECONDS.

  • RIGHT AFTER THAT, ENNIS MADE NUMEROUS PHONE CALLS

  • AND SENT TEXT MESSAGES LOOKING FOR HELP IN GETTING

  • AN ATTORNEY.

  • DETECTIVES THINK THAT BECAUSE JUST 16 MINUTES PASSED

  • BETWEEN THE TIME GATELY KNEW A SEARCH WARRANT WAS

  • COMING AND HE CALLED ENNIS.

  • THAT GATELY WARNED ENNIS THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE WAS

  • AFTER HIM.

  • CHIEF RICK DOBROW /SPOKANE POLICE DEPT.

  • 03;24 there is not going to be, i'm afraid, a happy

  • ending for anybody involved in this 03;29

  • TODAY GATELY'S ATTORNEY SAID HIS CLIENT IS INNOCENT,

  • THAT THE CHARGES AGAINST HIM ARE UNFOUNDED AND THAT

  • HE WILL VIGOROUSLY DEFEND HIM.

  • ALSO TODAY SGT.

  • GATELY RECEIVED A SUMMONS TO APPEAR IN SUPERIOR COURT

  • DECEMBER 16TH.

  • THE CITY OF SPOKANE MUST NOW DECIDE IF THEY WILL SUSPEND

  • GATELY WITH OUT PAY.

  • JEFF HUMPHREY, KXLY4 .

PROSECUTORS HAVE FILED CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST ANOTHER

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