View full sizeMickey Pledger was arrested Friday and faces three charges including filing a false police report, Baldwin County Sheriff's officials said. ELBERTA, Alabama -- Chief Mickey L. Pledger of the Elberta Police Department has been arrested on charges of firing a gun into an occupied building, filing a false police report and tampering with evidence, Baldwin County Sheriff Hoss Mack announced in a media statement this evening.
The arrest came following the investigation of an incident that took place last month.
According to the sheriff's office news release: Pledger agreed to take a polygraph test but failed it. During a subsequent interview with Pledger he admitted that on Feb. 13 he fired his backup .38 caliber weapon into his office window while an Elberta Police Officer was inside the building. Pledger then admitted that he fired his duty .40 caliber Sig Sauer weapon into the ground and told responding law enforcement officers that he pursued and returned fire at the perpetrator.
Three days after the incident, according to the release, Pledger called investigators with the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office and advise them the he had located a bullet casing across the street from the police station that he believed was the casing of the shot fired in his direction. But Pledger later admitted that he planted the shell casing in order to bolster his previous story, the release states.
Pledger, 56, was transported to the Baldwin County Correction Center. He is being held on $12,000 bail.