By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
Mossyrock Police Chief Jeremy Stamper has resigned, taking the one-person department down to none.
Jeannette Miller, city clerk for the central Lewis County town of some 750 people, said the city council has not yet decided how it will proceed. The mayor only notified the council last week, she said.
They have placed an advertisement for a new chief however, Miller said today.
Mossyrock Mayor Tom Meade said at the end of June he had full confidence in his chief, even though the chief’s wife had secured a protection order against her husband a month earlier.
Four days after the temporary order was put into place by the court for a year, Stamper’s wife Shannon Stamper filed a request for it to be withdrawn. It was terminated on July 1.
Miller said the chief’s last day was July 6, and he had given his two week notice more than two weeks before that.
He’s moving out of the state, she said. He was hired by the city in 2003.
Jeremy Stamper didn’t return a phone call seeking comment.
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For background, read:
• “Mossyrock police chief’s wife cancels protection order” from Monday July 1, 2013, here [1]
• “Mossyrock police chief contesting protection order” from Friday June 28, 2013, here [2]