Pubdate: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 Source: Daily Advance, The (Elizabeth City, NC) Copyright: 2007 Cox Newspapers, Inc. Contact: http://www.dailyadvance.com Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1700 Author: Diana Mazzella COP'S CASES TO BE REVIEWED Davidson Worked 4 Years As Detective Criminal cases worked on by an Edenton police detective charged with altering evidence will be reviewed, District Attorney Frank Parrish said Thursday. Parrish didn't immediately know how many cases Michael Aaron Davidson had worked on during his nearly four-year tenure with the Edenton Police Department. But Parrish's office does intend to conduct a full review of the detective's cases, he said. "We haven't made any decisions on any one of those cases," Parrish said. He declined to elaborate further, saying he couldn't comment on the matter because it's part of an ongoing investigation. Davidson, 32, was arrested July 10 and charged with altering evidence in a criminal investigation. He was released on a $1,000 unsecured bond. The State Bureau of Investigation's application for a warrant to search Davidson's home suggests the charges were based on allegations he planted evidence on several crime suspects he arrested. The document also indicates Davidson has been investigated by the SBI at least twice before. The first probe began in 2000 after a crime suspect accused Davidson, then a police officer for the Kinston Police Department, of planting evidence on him. The second probe was initiated in 2001 after $2,800 Davidson had seized from a crime suspect turned up missing from the Tyrrell County Sheriff's Office. At the time, Davidson was working as a deputy sheriff for the department and had the only key to a box containing the money, the SBI's search warrant application states. Both investigations were closed without charges being filed, the search warrant application states. A second application for a search warrant indicates Davidson admitted having $4,975.21 seized as evidence in a drug case he had worked on as an Edenton detective. Edenton Police Chief Greg Bonner could not be reached for comment Thursday. - --- MAP posted-by: Steve Heath