{"id":27004,"date":"2016-09-21T23:34:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T06:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/fairbanks-places-police-chief-on-leave\/"},"modified":"2016-09-21T23:34:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T06:34:40","slug":"fairbanks-places-police-chief-on-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/fairbanks-places-police-chief-on-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairbanks places police chief on leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FAIRBANKS<\/strong> \u2014 The city of Fairbanks on Wednesday placed its police chief on administrative leave.<\/p>\n<p>City human resources director Angela Foster-Snow says in a release the decision to put Chief Randall Aragon on leave is in response to an investigation of possible conflict-of-interest violations.<\/p>\n<p>Former Chief Dan Hoffman called for the investigation in a letter to the Fairbanks City Council. Hoffman said he received a report from a business owner of \u201cunethical activity\u201d by Aragon.<\/p>\n<p>The letter contends Aragon told the business owner that police could only do a brief assessment of her business after she reported property crime concerns. Aragon, listed as the sole proprietor of Certified Security Surveys, then allegedly offered to do a \u201cmore thorough job\u201d himself for a fee.<\/p>\n<p>Aragon told the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner that he\u2019s been advised not to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy chief Brad Johnson will be acting chief in Aragon\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>Fairbanks\u2019 police chief is under investigation over allegations brought by a former chief that he used his position to promote his security business.<\/p>\n<p>The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported the city\u2019s human resources director confirmed a personnel investigation into police Chief Randall Aragon was opened Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Former Chief Dan Hoffman called for the probe in a letter to the City Council that said he received a report from a business owner of \u201cunethical activity\u201d by Argon.<\/p>\n<p>The letter alleges Aragon told the owner police could only do a brief assessment of her business after she reported property crime concerns. Aragon, who is listed as the sole proprietor of Certified Security Surveys, then allegedly offered to do a \u201cmore thorough job\u201d himself.<\/p>\n<p>Aragon says he\u2019s been advised not to comment on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAIRBANKS \u2014 The city of Fairbanks on Wednesday placed its police chief on administrative leave. City human resources director Angela Foster-Snow says in a release the decision to put Chief Randall Aragon on leave is in response to an investigation of possible conflict-of-interest violations. Former Chief Dan Hoffman called for the investigation in a letter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":27005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-27004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27004"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=27004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}