Police Officer Who Arrested Mel Gibson for DUI Says He’s Being Harassed
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The sheriff’s deputy who arrested Mel Gibson for drunken driving six months ago says his superiors have harassed him ever since a report detailing the star’s anti-Semitic tirade was leaked to a celebrity news Web site. Deputy James Mee was transferred to another assignment and interrogated for several hours, and investigators seized a computer and phone records during a search of his home, his attorney told The Los Angeles Times for its Thursday editions. Click here for the Celebrities in Trouble Center “His life and career would be a lot different had he not made that arrest,” attorney Richard Shinee said. Neal Tyler, a division chief who oversees the sheriff’s office where Gibson was booked, denied that Mee was singled out and said he didn’t know of any problems with Mee’s treatment. He declined to discuss Mee’s specific complaints because of confidentiality rules, but he said, “I disagree with the assessment that personnel in the department or at the station have been relating to him or supervising him in an unfair manner.” |