In the post, Chief Rodney Muterspaw wrote that “our hearts are heavy” after the passing of Jeffery.
He wrote Jeffery served his community for decades and was a “mentor and friend to all of us.” Even after retirement, he would come in for coffee and just to sit and chat with the officers, Muterspaw wrote.
“He truly loved MPD and the Middletown community,” the chief wrote. “Heaven welcomed a legend today. God Bless you George.”
Jeffery joined the Middletown police department in 1972 and retired in 2006 after a 34-year career.
In a retirement letter dated April 1, 2006, then Police Chief Mike Bruck wrote that Jeffery was “one of our most experienced and skilled investigators and supervisors.”
Jeffery worked in the patrol division from 1972 until 1978 when he joined the detective section. As a patrolmen, Jeffrey received a “police heart” for a serious back injury that followed him throughout his career, according to Bruck’s letter.
As an investigator, Jeffery was involved in countless criminal cases, including the Jose Loza multiple-victim murder case, Broke wrote. Loza, 45, of Middletown, was sentenced in 1991 for shooting and killing four members of his girlfriend’s Middletown family. The victims were shot in the head at close range while they slept in their home.
In 1984, Jeffery graduated from the American Institute of Polygraph Technology and became the department’s polygrapher. He was promoted to sergeant 1989 and to lieutenant in 1992.
He was credited with saving a 7-year-old who was kidnapped and the arrest of the kidnapper, Glen Nagey.
While Bruck cited many of Jeffrey’s achievements, he called the “pinnacle” of Jeffrey’s career his “leadership and dedication” to the department.
Among his survivors is a daughter, Kristi Hughes, a Middletown detective.
Funeral services are pending.
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