Newly confirmed investigations into Henderson’s top police leaders follow years of controversies, internal probes, lawsuits and leadership turnover at the city’s police department.
The city of Henderson confirmed Aug. 22 that it had asked state investigators look into allegations involving Police Chief Reggie Rader and Deputy Chief Matt Murnane.
The city said Aug. 24 that Murnane has been on leave since Aug. 18, but did not release information about the scope of the investigation. A Henderson police spokesperson said that Rader was not on leave.
The Nevada Department of Public Safety’s Office of Professional Responsibility is conducting the investigation, Mayor Michelle Romero said in an emailed statement. Kim Yoko Smith, a spokeswoman for the Nevada State Police, which is within the Department of Public Safety, deferred inquiries regarding the investigation to the city of Henderson.
Here is a roundup of other investigations, controversies and lawsuits involving top Henderson police leaders in recent years.
2010: Chambers’ departure
A 2010 traffic stop involving a motorist whom troopers suspected of impaired driving — but who was having a diabetic episode — ended up costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars in settlements.
Adam Greene, 38 at the time, was driving to work one morning when he was pulled over by Nevada Highway Patrol troopers on suspicion of impaired driving. Then-Henderson police Sgt. Brett Seekatz responded to assist the troopers and kicked Greene five times in the head and yelled at him to stop resisting, according to previous Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.
An internal affairs investigation sustained an unnecessary-force allegation against Seekatz, who was promoted to lieutenant in 2016. Other allegations of misconduct were reported against Seekatz, but Seekatz was neither fired nor demoted, and he was not charged with a crime in the Greene case. His actions resulted in almost $300,000 in taxpayer-funded settlements, according to a 2021 Review-Journal report.
Although Seekatz kept his job, city leaders asked then-Police Chief Jutta Chambers to resign in 2012, citing her handling of the beating. Chambers retired and her successor, Patrick Moers, held the position until 2017.
2017: Moers out
After the city announced an investigation into then-Police Chief Patrick Moers and his ties to the department’s fundraising group, the Friends of the Henderson Police Department Foundation, then-Deputy Chief Todd Peters was named the city’s acting police chief in May 2017.
The investigation came after ex-Mayor Debra March saw a mailer from the foundation sent to local businesses showing Moers’ photo and an image of a Henderson police badge. March had said around the time of Peters’ promotion she was concerned about the degree of separation between the foundation and the department. At least two members of the foundation’s advisory board who also owned private businesses had contracts with the city.
The city announced in June 2017 that Moers and then-Deputy Chief Bobby Long, another member of the foundation’s board, had voluntarily separated from the department. The city agreed to pay the two nearly $400,000 under separation agreements.
In 2018, the Review-Journal, citing sources that granted anonymity to protect them from retribution, reported that a probe into sexual-harassment allegations against Moers had forced him out and that city leaders had concealed and misrepresented the nature of his separation.
2019: Watson fired
LaTesha Watson, a former deputy chief of the Arlington Police Department in Texas, replaced Peters as police chief in September 2018. The city asked her to resign in March 2019. It fired her the following month after she declined to sign a separation agreement.
Two Henderson police unions filed complaints against Watson with the Local Government Employee-Management Relations Board, alleging that Watson and then-Deputy Chief Thedrick Andres had tried to break up the labor groups. An independent investigator concluded that Watson disregarded her supervisor’s orders and contributed to mistrust and division among employees.
Watson sued the city in September 2020, alleging she faced racial and gender discrimination. U.S. District Judge Cristina Silva ruled in Henderson’s favor in March 2025, and Watson appealed to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, according to online court records. The case is ongoing.
2023: Andres retires
Andres replaced Watson as the city’s acting police chief and held the post until retiring in 2023. He was sworn in as the chief in 2019.
Police unions presented a vote of no confidence in Andres during a November 2022 City Council meeting. The Henderson Police Officers and Henderson Police Supervisors associations announced that more than 95 percent of their members voted no confidence in the chief. The unions said Andres cultivated a hostile work environment and discriminated against officers based on gender and sexuality.
March, who was mayor at the time, expressed support for Andres at that 2022 meeting. In an interview with the Review-Journal, Andres said he was proud of his work.
Two months later, Andres announced in an internal memo he was retiring to be closer with family. Andres is now the chief of the Cibolo Police Department in Texas, according to that city’s website.
2025: Chadwick fired
Hollie Chadwick followed Andres as Henderson police Chief and held the position until being fired in March 2025. Chadwick is running for mayor and was replaced by Rader, who became chief in July 2025.
Review-Journal reporting found Chadwick in 2023 had cleared the disciplinary record of a police detective accused of using a racial slur. In 2024, Chadwick also reversed recommendations to fire officers who were found by an internal investigation to have conspired to cover up a suspected DUI crash involving an off-duty officer, according to city records.
Chadwick has denied wrongdoing and said she would cover up a DUI. She said she stands by the decisions she made. She told the Review-Journal in July 2025 the internal affairs cases involving those officers had been left pending by Andres’ administration and that internal affairs probes were taking too long.
“That becomes a little egregious, when you have employees off work for that length of time,” Chadwick told the Review-Journal last July. “It was my job to read all the facts, listen to everything presented to me in a predisciplinary hearing, and make the decision I made. And I stand by that decision.”
Several of the officers involved in the alleged cover-up have sued the city alleging their suspensions were the result of discrimination and retaliation.
When Chadwick was fired, City Manager Stephanie Garcia-Vause said in a statement that her and Chadwick’s “leadership styles were not aligned,” and that she had lost confidence in Chadwick’s ability to commit to shaping a “culture of collaboration and continuous improvement” at the police department.
Contact Casey Harrison at charrison@reviewjournal.com. Follow @Casey_Harrison1 on X.
