The police chief fired two officers Friday for leaving an "obviously incapacitated" naked boy in the hands of Jeffrey L. Dahmer two months before dismembered bodies were found in Dahmer's apartment.
A third officer was fired, but his dismissal was stayed.Chief Philip Arreola cited "acts of omission" by the officers in the May 27 encounter. They included a failure to take witnesses' names at the scene and failure to take the 14-year-old boy into protective custody.
The mutilated bodies of 11 males, including the youth, Kon-erak Sinthasomphone, were later found in Dahmer's apartment. Witnesses summoned police on May 27 after seeing the youth on the street, naked and bleeding, rec-ords show.
Dahmer has admitted killing and dismembering 17 males since 1978.
Patrolmen John A. Balcerzak, 34, Joseph Gabrish, 28, and Richard Porubcan, 25, were suspended July 26 and charged with departmental violations. Arreola on Friday fired Balcerzak and Gabrish and stayed the dismissal of Porub-can, who will be under close supervision for one year, effectively on job probation.
The chief said Porubcan was allowed to keep his job because of his relative inexperience and because he was less culpable.