When Pembroke Police Chief Stacy Strickland asked his clerk to audit the department’s files and find out how many unpaid fines might be floating around out there somewhere, he probably wasn’t prepared for the answer he got. “In the initial report it was $700,000,” Strickland said, noting some of the fines had been outstanding since the early 1990s. Strickland, who took over the department on an interim basis in June 2013, brought that information to city council in June this year, after the clerk’s audi was complete.
Unpaid fines add up to big bucks
Pembroke PD audit finds $700K in unpaid tickets, forfeitures
