Riviera Beach picks former Delray captain to serve as new chief of police

Riviera Beach has selected Michael A. Coleman to serve as its new chief of police. Coleman, a former police captain in Delray Beach, will succeed Nathan Osgood, whose two-year tenure ended a year ago when he resigned following a pair of investigations found that he deviated from proper procedure in ordering the release of a city councilman who had been arrested for domestic-related simple battery. Osgood is now suing Riviera Beach, arguing that the city has refused to release telephone records that would indicate he did not violate procedure in ordering the release of Councilman Douglas Lawson after his arrest…