A Louisiana grand jury returned indictments against four Baton Rouge police officers who are accused of covering up one officer's alleged abuse of a suspect.
Four officers with the Baton Rouge Police Department were indicted Tuesday on charges stemming to September 2020, when one officer allegedly abused a suspect and three others attempted to cover up the incident, according to reports. The Advocate, a Baton Rouge-based newspaper, reported that officers Douglas Chutz Jr., Todd Thomas and Troy Lawrence Sr. were indicted by a grand jury on charges of obstruction of justice, conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice and malfeasance in office.
The rapper’s given name is Kentrell Gaulden, and on the night of the arrests, he was shooting a music video near an abandoned property when police swarmed in. Gaulden and 15 others were arrested that afternoon, and officers claimed to have confiscated multiple guns. The chief at the time, Murphy Paul, said in September 2023 that officers used an electric stun gun on a suspect to make him comply when they attempted to conduct a strip search on the man inside a bathroom at a police precinct.
The publication obtained arrest records and reported one officer informed investigators the man began to scream, and additional officers responded to the bathroom, including Lawrence Sr. When the stun gun was used, Paul reportedly said, it activated the body cameras of the officers, which captured the suspect getting struck. At the same time, a package reportedly fell from the suspect's anus, which officers claimed to believe was synthetic marijuana.
Despite the incident being captured on video, the officers are accused of conspiring to compose a letter that claimed the camera was missing or lost. The only officer linked to hitting the suspect was Thomas, the indictment shows. On Tuesday, District Attorney Hillar Moore said the charges against the other officers are connected to hiding the evidence. Moore, the Baton Rouge Police Department and Gaulden’s rep did not respond to inquiries from Fox News Digital on the matter.
Three others linked to the case are accused of traveling to nearby pharmacies to pick up prescriptions for pills that had been filled on bogus orders from people pretending to be real doctors. On April 26, additional charges related to the prescription fraud case were filed against Gaulden in Weber County, including a second-degree felony count of possession of a dangerous weapon by a restricted person and two Class A misdemeanor counts of distributing a controlled substance.
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