The city of Brevard denies wrongdoing in a lawsuit in which it’s accused of wrongfully firing a police sergeant last spring. That’s according to an April 28 federal court filing in the Western District of North Carolina.
In April 2025, former Brevard Police Department Sergeant Wilson Bunn sued the city, City Manager Wilson Hooper and then-Police Chief Thomas Jordan, alleging that he was fired in retaliation for speaking to an outside attorney about missing evidence in the department’s evidence room, the Times-News previously reported.
In the new filing, attorneys for the defendants Katie Weaver Hartzog and Dan M. Hartzog deny this.
“Defendants have complied in good faith with all applicable laws and regulations and having so complied, acted without improper motive,” according to the April 28 answer.
It said that Bunn’s firing was legitimate and non-retaliatory.
“(An) investigation revealed that Plaintiff (Bunn) was trying to orchestrate the Chief’s termination by making false allegations regarding the evidence room,” according to the answer.
The answer asks the court for a jury trial and to have plaintiffs pay costs including attorney’s fees and argues that the case should be dismissed.
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