Green also hired a new assistant chief without approval from Jacksboro’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen, Goins told the times. When Goins found out on Monday, he and the officer standing next to him both quit.

“I resigned standing there,” Goins told the times. “‘The officer (standing) behind me resigned. There’s no police department now.”

Agencies from the county and the state agreed to assist and respond to calls in Jacksboro until the officers were replaced.

Green was elected mayor last year, according to the times.

In 2004, Green was accused of threatening and torturing a man who violated his probation, according to court documents obtained by WVLT News.

Green was a reserve deputy for the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office at the time and was part of a group of law enforcement agents serving an arrest warrant for Lester Eugene Siler.

When the group arrived, they handcuffed Siler, made him sit in a chair, and then ordered his wife and son to leave the house, according to court documents. They demanded Siler sign a document giving them the right to search his house and when he refused, they started to threaten him with physical harm, according to the documents.

“Defendant SHAYNE GREEN and another conspirator known to the United States attached wires from a battery charger to Lester Eugene Siler and threatened to electrocute him.”

Representation for the U.S. District Court’s Eastern District office claimed Green did not intervene while he watched one of the men hit Siler before Green himself tried to force Siler’s head into a fish tank, according to the documents.