Union: Officer who ticketed Fenty aide ordered to drop it

A District of Columbia police commander heatedly ordered one of his officers to “take back” a ticket he had written to an aide to Mayor Adrian Fenty, the officer’s union has claimed in a complaint.

After Seventh District officer Kevin Dean cited Isha Foster Lee for driving while talking on her cell phone, Cmdr. Joel Maupin called Dean on a cell phone and told him, “Dean, you are going to take that ticket back and that’s all there is to it,” according to the complaint, lodged on Dean’s behalf by the police union and obtained by The Examiner.