Why did a Boynton Beach internal affairs report clear officers without interviewing them?

BOYNTON BEACH — An Internal Affairs investigator cleared two Boynton Beach police officers of misconduct in the handling of a crash investigation without speaking to them. An expert has questioned how the investigator could have cleared them without doing so.

Both officers smelled alcohol on the breath of Chelsea Harness, the girlfriend of city commissioner Thomas Turkin. He arrived on the scene of the crash and told officers that Harness was his girlfriend. Harness was never charged or asked to take a Breathalyzer.

Mark Sieron, a Jacksonville-area lawyer who specializes in DUI cases, discussed the case with The Palm Beach Post at the newspaper’s request. He said the smell of alcohol by itself may not be enough to launch a DUI investigation, but one would almost always be done when property damage is involved…

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