SEATTLE — Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole has asked the city to seek dismissal of all citations issued by a bicycle officer who wrote 80 percent of the tickets during the first half of this year for using marijuana in public.
The request to the city attorney’s office stems from a conclusion that the 66 citations were written as part of a personal agenda on the part of Officer Randy Jokela, O’Toole said.
On many of the tickets, Jokela referred to City Attorney Pete Holmes, a supporter of legal marijuana, as “Petey Holmes.”
The tickets were written for the “wrong reasons,” O’Toole said.
In addition to the references to Holmes, Jokela wrote on one ticket that he used a coin toss to decide which of two men would get a ticket. On another he described state voter approval of marijuana legalization as “silly.”