Original Article Glendale's bungled cases snowballed after first tip Brent Whiting The Arizona Republic Apr. 9, 2005 12:00 AM GLENDALE - When police got a complaint about the handling of a domestic-violence case, it proved to be the tip of a very ugly iceberg, according to the city's former top cop. Andrew Kirkland, who resigned Friday as Glendale's police chief, said officers looked into the one complaint and then discovered that many more cases had been botched. "And that's how all of this got started," Kirkland said, referring to a scandal involving a Glendale police detective, who stands accused of dropping the ball in at least 242 cases. Brad Moore, 41, a 19 1/2-year member of the Glendale force, has been placed on paid leave pending his appeal of city efforts to have him fired. Moore was served with a notice of termination on Feb. 3 that says 158 domestic-relations cases have been scrapped because he falsified reports and failed to file the paperwork with prosecutors. The cases, which date from January 2002, cannot be reworked or submitted for prosecution because the one-year statute of limitations had expired, the notice said. That leaves 84 cases that remain viable but need to be reworked by other detectives to complete the job that Moore failed to do, the notice said. Moore has told supervisors that he "screwed up" and "got into a bad habit," according to city records. Efforts to reach him for comment, including a stop at his home, have failed. Moore has remained under the radar screen during most of his police career, according to newspaper archives. Moore, while working as a patrol officer in 1986, arrested a purse-snatcher, according to one article. His name disappears from the archives after a 1989 story about an arrest Moore made in an animal-cruelty case. In reviews during the past two years, two supervisors, Lt. Mark Carpenter and Sgt. Dan Keddy, gave him ratings for at least meeting or exceeding job standards, according to personnel documents obtained from Glendale under the Arizona Public Records Law. Before being hired by Glendale, Moore attended Phoenix College and worked as a drywaller, the records show, but his employer at a drywall firm gave him less than a ringing endorsement. "Brad is a quiet kid . . . but not overly ambitious, at least in this job," the employer wrote. Reach the reporter