Man files federal lawsuit against former Centralia officer, city of Centralia and others
Taylor Petras
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KMIZ)
A Centralia man has filed a federal lawsuit against a former Centralia police officer, the Centralia Police Department, the City of Centralia and two others after the man was allegedly pulled over, assaulted and arrested without probable cause.
The lawsuit was filed on May 12, 2021 in the U.S. District Court for Western Missouri by plaintiff James Robert White.
Individual defendants in the case include former Centralia officers Brian Dulany and Clint Baer and current Centralia police chief Robert Bias.
According to the lawsuit, former Centralia officer Clint Baer was stalking and harassing White s girlfriend.
Former Centralia police officer sentenced eight years for trying to have sex with teen
CENTRALIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
Former Centralia officer Clint Baer was sentenced to eight years in prison after he pleaded guilty in October, to try and have sex with a minor.
According to a release, Baer began talking to someone he believed to be the mother of a 14-year-old girl through a social networking site. Over the course of several months, Baer exchanged sexually detailed and explicit text messages and phone calls, via social media, with her. In Baer’s sexually explicit messages, he expressed his desire to engage in sexual activity with the 14-year old girl as well as the mother. In reality, Baer was speaking with an undercover FBI agent.