By Robert Jordan
Daily Record of Dunn
COATS – A Coats Police Department officer was fired after an arrest in an impaired driving case Sunday, September 29 which found him in the back seat of a patrol car.
Officer William Beuckman was off duty when he was pulled over in the parking lot of the Dollar General store in Coats around 9 p.m. for a report of reckless driving. North Carolina State Highway Patrol Trooper Geoffrey C. Middlebrooks recorded the result of a breath test on Beuckman at the scene as 0.10, two one-hundredths of a point over the illegal limit of 0.08, according to online court records on eCourts.
William Franklin Beuckman Jr., 50, of Scotch Broom Lane in Coats, was arrested and charged with driving while impaired and reckless driving to endanger. He was released under an unsecured bond of $2,500.
Beuckman joined the Coats police force on Nov. 8. He was still on a year’s probation for his employment at the time of his arrest.
“After reviewing the events that transpired on the night of September 29th, 2024 involving Officer William Beuckman, it is the determination of the town manager and the chief of police that Officer William Beuckman be terminated for his actions on the night in question,” Coats Police Chief Kenneth Stocks noted in a written statement Monday, Sept. 30. “Officer Beuckman is within his one year probation with the Town of Coats.”
Another “fine specimen” of a public servant
It amazes me how many of them real life think the law don’t applie to them I don’t know what they teaching in them program but don’t listen cause u gonna come out of that training thinking you’re entitled and go straight to jail 😂
According to your grammar errors, it appears you didn’t get “teaching in them program” either.
Always commenting with your unsubstantiated bias opinions. You are the epidemy of misinformation.
To you folks painting all Law Enforcement with the same brush: the overwhelming statistics show that only about .0005% of sworn officers commit such acts. The fact is that most of us show up for work, leave our families, never knowing if that shift will be our last, and obey the laws we are tasked with enforcing. Save all your saber-rattling for people who don’t know better because almost every officer out there is trying to help, not hurt. This officer and the few of his ilk, are fortunately weeded out pretty quickly most of the time.
.0005 may only get caught but a lot more commit such acts.
You see, that is the difference between fact and opinion: the facts that I stated are easily verifiable by several accepted sources; what you have posted about more officers committing such acts but not being caught is simply your opinion, not supported by facts at all. In short your bias is showing as you obviously have a problem with law enforcement. Perhaps you should look into treatment or just stop breaking the law cold-turkey.
Actually, the ignorant ideologies you clearly support seem to be your motive for spreading negativity and hate. In fact, data does show that a large percentage of crimes, regardless of the offender, go unsolved and unnoticed. One would easily understand the if .0005 are caught, many others are not caught. That’s not opinion, that’s simply a search for data which I think you are capable of. You seem to only verify your bias while ignoring the opposing view while spewing your hatred to convince people you’re more important. You’re as worthless as any other hack that pretends to be smarter than they really are.
“while spewing your hatred to convince people you’re more important.” Hmm, perhaps you could quote the particular portions of my two posts that do any of that specifically. You cannot because I did none of that. Now, as far as me being smarter than you are, you have already proven that I am MUCH more intelligent than you when you decided to post this response. I based my response on a national statistic that is easy to verify and I can also attest to the integrity of law enforcement since I have been one for almost 36 years now. Signed, worthless hack, but still smarter than you.
Please provide the source for your 0.005% claim. You sound like all the snowflakes who claim that only less than 7% of all crimes in the US (per FBI stats) are committed by illegal immigrants. #FactsNorFiction
There is a thing called Google on the same machine you’re using to access Joco Report. Try that out. If you have any problems, go to a library for assistance. The library is a big building with books in it.
The officer is human just like the rest of us all. Just made bad judgment at that time for all of the bs preachers out there what’s in your closet hiding
Steve, he may be human, but he is held to higher standers then the average person. Police Officers are looked up to by children and trusted by most adults and a bad seed can ruin the entire crop (Something like that?) This officer knew better and now he made a choice that cost him his trust as well as gives Police Officers a black eye. Most Officers are caring, and some do drink off duty, but they know to do it at home or have a designated driver. William Beuckman Jr was wrong for what he did, and I praise the Officer who did not let him go because he was a fellow Police Officer.