Mountain Home Police Chief Scott Conner placed on Paid Administrative Leave

The Mountain Home News doing due diligence after receiving emails overnight from a reader expressing concern and questions, reached out to the City of Mountain Home first thing Thursday morning, Oct. 6th in reference to the concerned citizens questions. We asked the City of Mountain Home if in fact Chief of Police Scott Conner was on any type of suspension or administrative leave, in seeking transparency of our local government for our local citizenship and readers. We also asked them to relieve the communities concern that the department’s leadership was intact. The response was “The city has no comment at this time.”

The Mayor did respond to KTVB stating that the Mountain Home Chief of Police was on paid administrative leave. Mayor Sykes also stated to outside media of our local area that three MHPD lieutenants were currently reporting directly to him while Scott Conner was on leave. The Mayor would not comment to KTVB on a reason for the leave other than to say it was an “HR issue.” There is currently no interim chief, the lieutenants of their each and own divisions will continue to report to the Mayor. The Mountain Home News has received unconfirmed accusations and a possible reason and will continue to report on any received confirmation from the city.

Scott Conner was announced in the Mountain Home News as the new Mountain Home Chief of Police on January 2nd 2019 arriving here from Belen New Mexico.