The following article was acquired

from NevadaAppeal.com in regards to Tony Dosen allegedly going on break without

permission, hiding his motorcycle behind the restaurant (Nik and Willies) and

skipping out on a $3 tab. The owner of the restaurant filed a formal complaint

with the department after such rude and brazen behavior occurred. Dosen was

given 30 days of unpaid leave.

"The Nevada Highway Patrol will not allow insubordination and dishonesty to continue

to degrade the integrity and honesty of the Nevada Highway Patrol," Hosmer

said in a statement. 

Even after the disciplinary report was taken, Dosen still refused to return to the restaurant and pay the $3 tab until his superior lodged a formal complaint. "Such knowing and willful misconduct is disgraceful and inexcusable" and discredits the agency, the hearing officer said.

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Thursday, Jan 23 2003.

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RENO -- A Nevada state hearing officer has

upheld the suspension of a state trooper who failed to tell his supervisors he

was taking a dinner break and then skipped out on his $3 tab at a pizza parlor.

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Trooper Anthony Dosen is serving a 30-day

suspension without pay for leaving the restaurant without paying the discounted

bill, and for other violations of the patrol's meal-break policy more than a

year ago, said David Hosmer, chief of the Nevada Highway Patrol.

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"The Nevada Highway Patrol will not

allow insubordination and dishonesty to continue to degrade the integrity and

honesty of the Nevada Highway Patrol," Hosmer said in a statement

Wednesday.

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Patrick Dolan, a hearing officer for the

Nevada Personnel Commission, ruled that the Department of Public Safety had

just cause to suspend Dosen as a result of the incident at the Nik N Willies

restaurant in Reno on Sept. 22, 2001.

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"The evidence establishes that Dosen

willfully failed to notify dispatch that he was taking a break, leaving his

supervisors to believe that he was out patrolling his beat when in fact he was

eating pizza at a restaurant with three other troopers," Dolan wrote in a

finding of facts issued last week.

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Dosen and the three other troopers, who were

not named, also violated Nevada Highway Patrol policy that no more than two

troopers and two vehicles stop to eat at the same restaurant at the same time,

Hosmer said.

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Dosen, who has been a state trooper since

October 1989, allegedly parked his motorcycle behind the restaurant "in an

effort to avoid giving any passers-by an indication that more than two officers

were at the restaurant at the same time," Dolan said.

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"Such knowing and willful misconduct is

disgraceful and inexcusable" and discredits the agency, the hearing

officer said.

Dosen acted in an "insubordinate and

dishonest" way when he left the restaurant without paying the bill, which

already had been "discounted by 50 percent," Dolan wrote, from

between $6 and $6.50 to about $3 -- as many establishments do for sworn law

officers.

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Dosen, who works out of the patrol office in

Reno, could not be reached for immediate comment. His home telephone number is

not listed. A public information officer for the patrol said he would attempt

to contact Dosen to relay a message seeking comment.

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The hearing officer said Dosen claimed he

simply forgot about the bill.

"That assertion is unworthy of

belief," Dolan wrote.

Dosen declined to return to pay the bill

even after two fellow troopers advised him to do so. He ultimately returned to

the restaurant and paid the bill after his supervisor filed a complaint against

him on Sept. 27, 2001, Hosmer

said.

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