PATTERSON — City Council members at Tuesday’s regular meeting wanted to know why the job of investigating missing money in the volunteer fire department ended up on the desk of Police Chief Garrett Grogan. Grogan’s reply: No worries. He’s got this. Also Tuesday, the council heard about progress on flood-control projects and heard a report from Coroner Eric Melancon about his work in Patterson. The allegations of misspent firefighter funds surfaced this week in a legislative auditor’s report. The report identified more than $14,477 in personal purchases and automatic teller withdrawals by one member of the department between 2016 and 2019. The report ...