Two Blue Ash officers out after investigation

One police officer was fired and another retired after an internal investigation revealed they didn’t properly respond to an incident in which a man died. The Blue Ash Police Department terminated Patrol Officer Gary McNeal on Nov. 28, and Sgt. Edward Charron retired on Nov. 21. The investigation found the pair did not respond to an emergency situation in a timely manner and they violated police department policy by failing to turn on their lights or sirens. The internal investigation followed a June 26 incident where McNeal and Charron responded to Frisch’s on Plainfield Road for a man who was not breathing. The man had a heart condition, and he died at the scene, according to Blue Ash spokeswoman Breanna Gilroy.