Court of Appeals of North Carolina October 2, 2012, No. COA12-115 (Bulloch v. North Carolina Department of Crime Control & Public Safety)

STEPHENS, Judge.

On 6 May 2005, Wade Bryan Bulloch, who at the time was a Line Sergeant with the North Carolina Highway Patrol (the “NCHP”), a division of the North Carolina Department of Crime Control and Public Safety (the “Department), was dismissed from his employment on grounds of unacceptable personal conduct.