Former Mannford Police Officer Sentenced To Life, Convicted Of Killing His Police Chief Former Mannford police officer Michael Nealey has been sentenced by a judge to life in prison Thursday in a Florida court. Nealey is convicted of killing his boss Police Chief Lucky Miller. This is a breaking news update. The original story is below. In late March 2021, a jury found him guilty of killing his boss, Police Chief Lucky Miller, after he hit him several times. Nealey and Miller went to Pensacola, Florida in November 2019 for a law enforcement conference. They shared a hotel room, which is where investigators said they got into a drunken fight that ended in Miller's death.