Former Fort Bragg police chief takes DA investivative job

Scott Mayberry, who last month abruptly resigned from his position as chief of the Fort Bragg Police Department, will begin working as an investigator for the Mendocino County District Attorney’s Office on Monday, according to office spokesman Mike Geniella.

Mayberry, a native of Fort Bragg, was its police chief for 3½ years. He had more than 30 years’ experience in law enforcement before he moved back to Fort Bragg and took command of the police department.

Mayberry had been on medical leave for unspecified reasons for about a month when he resigned. His wife and other supporters complained at a City Council meeting that he had been treated with disrespect, but they did not elaborate.

Mayberry resigned through an intermediary at that meeting.

The City Council expressed sorrow at losing Mayberry, who was credited with cracking down on gangs and for his part in capturing a killer north of Fort Bragg earlier this year. Mayberry was on the scene shortly after an Oregon man fatally shot Mendocino County Sheriff’s Deputy Ricky Del Fiorentino, and he provided cover for another officer who exchanged gunfire with the suspect.

Mayberry’s hiring brings the number of investigative staff to six at the District Attorney’s Office, Geniella said.