Arrest warrant issued for BRPD officer
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - An arrest warrant was issued early Tuesday evening for one of four Baton Rouge police officers indicted by a special grand jury earlier in the day. The other three officers were arrested last year.
The case against them is tied to the alleged coverup of the beating of a man in police custody.
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The newly-issued warrant for BRPD Corporal Martele Jackson, of Prairieville, was for charges of Obstruction of Justice and Malfeasance in Office.
“You are hereby commanded, in the name of the State, to arrest and bring the accused before our Court to answer the indictment,” said the warrant signed by 19th Judicial District Court Judge Brad Myers.
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