ALBUQUERQUE POLICE LIEUTENANT GREG BRACHLE IS APPARENTLY READY TO RETIRE. POLICE SPOKESPERSON CELINA ESPINOZA SAYS BRACHLE FILED FOR RETIREMENT ON MONDAY, MARCH 7TH. HE’S THE OFFICER ACCUSED OF SHOOTING ONE OF HIS UNDERCOVER COPS IN JANUARY OF LAST YEAR DURING A BOTCHED DRUG BUST.
THE OFFICER WHO WAS SHOT … JACOB GRANT … FILED A LAWSUIT AGAINST BRACHLE, APD, AND THE CITY OF ALBUQUERQUE IN AUGUST OF LAST YEAR THAT SAYS BRACHLE KEPT SHOOTING AT GRANT EVEN THOUGH HE WAS INJURED AND CRAWLING AWAY FROM THE SCENE.
