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Straub supervised fiancee

Frank Straub is expected to be named Spokane's next police chief in a news conference on Wednesday afternoon, Aug. 22, 2012. (Robert Scheer/The Indianapolis Star)
Frank Straub is expected to be named Spokane's next police chief in a news conference on Wednesday afternoon, Aug. 22, 2012. (Robert Scheer/The Indianapolis Star)

The city’s nominee for police chief is engaged to a woman he supervised in his previous job as public safety director in Indianapolis, a relationship that wouldn’t be allowed under Spokane city policies.

Frank Straub confirmed his engagement to Amber Myers, the chief of Animal Care and Control for Indianapolis and the person he elevated to that position last November after her predecessor left, the Indianapolis Star newspaper reported in an article published Tuesday. Myers had been the agency’s deputy chief, and before that she was an attorney with the city legal office.

Straub could not be reached Tuesday for comment. Jim Camden, Thomas Clouse, SR Read more.

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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.