Former FBI Agent Hired To Investigate Socorro Police Chief

SOCORRO, Texas — A special investigator and former FBI agent was hired by the city of Socorro to investigate allegations against their police chief.
Allegations that Socorro city officials can’t disclose were brought up against Police Chief Jaime Avalos.
On Thursday, Gary K. Webb was hired by the city of Socorro to investigate Avalos.
Avalos was hired on March 2, 2006 as a captain and was promoted as chief in 2009. The suspended police chief was put on indefinite leave, said Socorro city officials.
They said Webb will look into the following: purchasing issues, wage and hour violations, polygraph policy violations, EEOC personnel management violations, TCLEOSE regulations violations, human resources and personnel violations and misrepresentation of facts related to official conduct.
Webb, who retired from the FBI in 1998, owns a private investigation firm that primarily conducts background checks for the federal government and works as a private investigator.