Ex-Cop Begins Prison Term In MN For Katrina Cover-Up

September 12, 2011 12:51 PM

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A former police detective who pleaded guilty to helping cover up deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina has started serving a three-year prison sentence.

A spokesman for the federal Bureau of Prisons says Jeffrey Lehrmann reported Monday to a low-security prison in Sandstone, Minn.

Lehrmann is one of five former officers who pleaded guilty to participating in a plot to make it appear police were justified in shooting six people, killing two, on the Danziger Bridge several days after the 2005 storm’s landfall.

He is the first of those five former officers to begin serving a prison sentence.

Lehrmann was a government witness in the trial of five other current or former officers who were convicted last month of civil rights charges stemming from the shootings.

Ex Cop Begins Prison Term In MN For Katrina Cover Up

Good going Jeffrey

I predict someone is gonna’ get a major @$$ kicking over the next three years – let’s hope so…

Dave’s Not Here

Your prediction is a dumb one. He’s going to minimum security. I know you’re hoping for a “bubba” sentence for the guy but that isn’t going to happen in Sandstone…

Hmm

Wow a guy can’t get beat up in Sandstone, a guy was killed last year in sherburne county jail, id say a butt kicking could happen in Stoney

kvue

Finally I see the the government is on the public side. With all of this going on, I though to myself that it was another government cover up that’s not going to put of of their own in prison and lose face in the eye of the public.
cs

Only 3 years for covering up 2 murders and 6 assaults?