Detroit Law Department attorney fired two years after being charged as drug dealer
George Hunter
The Detroit News
Published 2:10 p.m. ET July 14, 2023

"City officials this week fired an attorney in the Law Department nearly two years after she was arrested during a Detroit traffic stop and charged with being a drug dealer in possession of a gun and more than 300 grams of fentanyl.


Danasia Neal faces felony firearm and possession with intent to deliver between 50-450 grams of heroin/cocaine after she and three co-defendants were stopped by Detroit police officers on July 22, 2021, on the city's northwest side.


Because of a 2010 ordinance that limits city officials from questioning applicants for municipal jobs about their criminal histories, Neal was not required to disclose her arrest and pending charges when she applied last year for a job with the city's Department of Civil Rights, Inclusion & Opportunity."