A Baltimore Police detective is suing Commissioner Michael Harrison, Deputy Commissioner Brian Nadeau, an internal affairs captain and a retired colonel, claiming they conspired against him to prevent a separate, negligent death lawsuit against the department.
Detective Jeffrey Lilly’s lawyers filed the complaint in Baltimore City Circuit Court on Tuesday, and Lilly is seeking backpay and for a jury to award him and his wife an unspecified amount of compensatory and punitive damages.
In the complaint, Lilly claims Harrison, Nadeau, Public Integrity Bureau Capt. Lekeshia Blue and former police Col. Robert Smith “orchestrated and executed a continuous campaign of pressure and intimidation” to damage Lilly’s career, going as far as to suspend him without pay and serve him with a criminal warrant. His offense? Trying to recover a litter of French Bulldog puppies that James Blue III, Lekeshia Blue’s husband, had agreed to raise for the Lillys before James Blue was killed in January.
