Ex-cop loses bid to get back job
A fired Radnor Township police sergeant who scammed a teen out of $6,000 lost a bid to get back his job through arbitration.
AN ARBITRATOR yesterday ruled against Jamie Campbell in the ex-Radnor Township police sergeant's bid to get back on the force.
Campbell, 39, was fired last June for conduct unbecoming an officer after Sean Grady, a 19-year-old from Warminster, told Radnor Township officials that Campbell had put the teen and his family through a two-year ordeal over a car-sale scam that included lies about a fake divorce and phony military service.
Grady eventually got his money back and bought a motorcycle, only to be struck and killed last August by a driver who was allegedly under the influence, his family has said.
Campbell's attorney, Robert DeLuca, did not return a request for comment yesterday. In December, he told the Daily News that he believed that Campbell would get back his job.
"I believe that the arbitrator's ruling simply validated what I knew all along," Radnor Township Police Superintendent William Colarulo said yesterday afternoon.
Grady paid Campbell $6,000 for a 1991 Nissan 300ZX that the burly cop had posted for sale on Craigslist in 2010.
Text messages showed that when the teen requested to complete the sale and pick up the car, Campbell fed him stories about being in a messy divorce or away on military leave.
Campbell later told Radnor Township officials that he had never been married or in the military. DeLuca previously told the People Paper that the matter between Campbell and Grady was a "contractual dispute."
"I think they made the right call, based on the character he exhibited and the things he's done," said Michael Grady, Sean's father. "He shouldn't be in a uniform . . . no one's outside the law, no matter what your position is in this life."
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