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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A Utah sheriff says a detective has been terminated for allegedly covering up a firearms violation involving his father, a convicted sex offender.
Millard County Sheriff Robert Dekker told The Salt Lake Tribune that Det. Bill Jackson is appealing his firing to a civil service board and is collecting pay pending the outcome of a hearing.
Dekker says Lt. Roger Young has retired and he believes Young's departure is related to the same case.
The departures come after Sevier County Attorney Dale Eyre found Young and Jackson hindered an investigation into whether Jackson's father, a registered sex offender, was keeping a rifle in a gun cabinet when deputies responded to his home for a medical call.
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