Oak Hill cops on Florida Department of Law Enforcement's radar

NSBNews.net file photo of Oak Hill Police Chief Diane Young

OAK HILL -- The Florida Department of Law Enforcement acknowledged for the first time that it has the Oak Hill Police Department on its investigative radar.

"We've received some information as it relates to the police department and we're looking into it," FDLE spokeswoman Heather Smith told NSBNews.net.

Smith declined to get into specifics except to say things are in the preliminary stages that "may or may not be criminal" in the small police force led by embattled Police Chief Diane Young, whose reinstatement of Sgt. Manuel Perez a week ago today after has been met with skepticism from some city officials and residents alike.

Perez was brought back after a three-month-plus paid suspension by Young who cleared him of criminal charges of stealing gas from the city pump and of improperly using the department's driver's license computer system to look up names that had no bearing on his law enforcement duties.