PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Newly released documents reveal more information about the firing in December of a Gladstone police sergeant implicated in the death of his wife.
According to a memo released by the department, Lynn Benton was dismissed for having pornography on a department computer and for engaging in a fraudulent marriage in 1993 with a Brazilian man so he could qualify for citizenship. Benton was legally female at the time. They divorced in 1996.
Benton underwent a female-to-male sex-change operation and in 2010 married Deborah Higbee Benton, killed in May at her beauty salon.
Prosecutors say a woman charged in the slaying, Susan Ellen Campbell,
reported Lynn Benton offered her $2,000 for the killing. Benton has not been charged.
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