TEXAS TOWN SACKS IT'S POLICE DEPARTMENT

By Bob Walsh

The Coffee City police

 

 

The teeming metropolis of Coffee City, Texas, has decided to deactivate the Coffee City P D and fire the chief due to unhappiness with how the department was being run.

Chief Johnjay Portillo was placed on suspension September 1 following questions about the backgrounds of officers he hired.  Since taking over in 2021 the department has expanded 400%, growing to 50 officers.    About half of those 50 had been suspended, fired, demoted or otherwise parted company from their previous department.  The city has a total of about 250 residents.  That is a hell of a lot of cops for 250 residents.  

Once a new Chief is hired the current officers will be free to reapply for their old jobs.  

The Henderson County S. O. is holding down the fort in the meantime.