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Muncie Police Officers Indicted on Additional Charges of Excessive Force and Obstruction Details Written by DOJ
Indianapolis, Indiana - A federal grand jury in Indianapolis, Indiana, returned a 17-count superseding indictment charging three officers and one sergeant of the Muncie Police Department with excessive force and obstruction.
According to court documents, Officers Joseph Chase Winkle, 34, Jeremy Gibson, 30, Corey Posey, 28, and Sergeant Joseph Krejsa, 50, were indicted for their roles in using excessive force against arrestees and attempting to cover up the misconduct.
The superseding indictment charges Winkle with 11 felony offenses, Gibson with three felony offenses, Krejsa with two felony offenses, and Posey with one felony offense.
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Fourth officer charged in excessive force case
The maximum penalty for the deprivation-of-rights offenses is 10 years of imprisonment and the maximum penalty for false report offenses is 20 years of imprisonment.
After three Indiana police officers were previously indicted for severely beating arrestees and attempting to cover up their illicit actions, a fourth officer was recently charged with obstruction related to another incident of excessive force.
In March 2020, Muncie Police Officer Joseph Chase Winkle, Sergeant Joseph Krejsa, and Officer Jeremy Gibson were charged in a 12-count indictment accusing Winkle and Gibson of using excessive force against arrestees while Krejsa wrote false reports to clear Winkle’s civil rights violations on at least two occasions. On Wednesday, the Justice Department announced that a federal grand jury in Indianapolis, Indiana, returned a 17-count superseding indictment charging three officers and one sergeant o
Muncie officers face excessive force counts
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MUNCIE – Four Muncie police officers have been indicted on charges accusing them of using excessive force during arrests or of trying to cover up that misconduct, a federal prosecutor announced Wednesday.
Officers Joseph Chase Winkle, 34, and Jeremy Gibson, 30, and Sgt. Joseph Krejsa, were initially charged in a 12-count indictment in March 2020.
But acting U.S. Attorney John Childress announced Wednesday that a 17-count superseding indictment returned by a federal grand jury charges all three with additional counts while also charging Officer Corey Posey, 28.
Winkle now faces 11 felony offenses for alleged excessive force that includes kicking, punching, knee-striking, and using a Taser without justification on seven people during arrests, injuring them. He is also accused of writing false reports about that alleged excessive force, Childress said in a release.