Former Caldwell Police Department Lieutenant Joseph Hoadley is headed to federal prison. The 42 year old Hoadley, from Caldwell, was sentenced to three months in federal prison for falsifying a record or document in a federal investigation, witness tampering by harassment, and destroying a record to impair its use in an official proceeding. At sentencing, the judge also ordered Hoadley to serve 12 months of supervised release after he serves his prison sentence. The sentence handed down now, comes after Hoadley was found guilty after a 5 day jury trial last September. That same jury found Hoadley not guilty of willful deprivation of rights under color of law.
