Former Fort Worth-area officer of the year tampered with narcotics evidence, police say
A former Bedford officer has been accused of taking evidence related to narcotics investigations out of the police property room and not submitting that evidence to a laboratory.
Todd Kristopher Davis, 42, of Grapevine, no longer works for the city of Bedford, according to a police official. The police department didn’t immediately respond to other questions about the investigation or how Davis left the department.
Davis is suspected of either removing narcotics that were previously booked into evidence, or Davis was not booking into evidence drugs that he had taken into his custody for the purpose of filing a case, according to a Brady notice dated Wednesday from the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office.
Defense attorneys who have received notices are trying to determine how many narcotics cases may have been impacted by Davis’ actions, if the suspicions of law enforcement officials are correct, said Dan Collins, an attorney who received one of the Brady notices Wednesday.
“We are trying to figure out where to go from here,” Collins said.
Davis and his attorney couldn’t immediately be reached for comment. The district attorney’s office said it doesn’t comment on pending cases.
Davis, who received the Bedford Officer of the Year award for the fourth consecutive year in 2015, said in a previous Star-Telegram news story that he was shocked that he was named as a recipient.
“It was the most surprising,” Davis said in 2015. “Don’t get me wrong, I’m flattered that I got the award, but I thought other officers should have gotten it.”
Davis had law enforcement influences growing up and had served at least a decade on the force before leaving, according to previous Star-Telegram reporting. His father was a deputy with the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office, and his grandfather was a police officer in Dallas.
A graduate of L.D. Bell High School, Davis grew up in the Northeast Tarrant County area and started his career with the Bedford Police Department as a patrol officer.
“Officer Davis is a very technically proficient officer,” former Police Chief Roger Gibson said in the 2015 article. “He has a great ability to reason with people and resolve problems. He is always positive and focused on doing his best on each call. He understands customer service.”
This story includes information from Star-Telegram archives.
This story was originally published July 1, 2020 at 4:28 PM.
