In a letter to Detective Joshua Jaynes, LMPD interim Chief Yvette Gentry said she has the utmost confidence in my decision to terminate your employment for breaching department polices on truthfulness and search warrant preparations.
An attorney representing the detective, however, said Wednesday he thought the allegations against Jaynes are demonstrably wrong. I was not surprised that the pre-termination letter was delivered; we d heard rumors about that, said Jaynes lawyer, Thomas Clay. What did kind of surprise me were the grounds that are alleged as the basis for this termination action, Clay added. There are two of them: One, that he should have been at 3003 Springfield Drive when that search warrant was executed, and second was that he was untruthful in a statement he included in the search warrant affidavit. Â
By: CBS News
The Louisville Metro Police Department is moving to fire two of the officers involved in the raid that led to the police shooting of Breonna Taylor in March, attorneys for the officers confirmed on Tuesday. Detective Myles Cosgrove, one of the officers who opened fire during the raid, and Detective Josh Jaynes, who obtained the search warrant for Taylor s home, have both received pre-termination letters, their attorneys said.
Jaynes pre-termination letter, signed by Interim Police Chief Yvette Gentry, accuses him of lying on the application for the search warrant, according to a copy of the letter obtained by CBS News. In the application, Jaynes claimed he received information from a U.S. Postal Inspector that Jamarcus Glover, Taylor s ex-boyfriend, had been receiving suspicious packages at Taylor s apartment.
Officials are reportedly in the process of firing two Kentucky police officers involved in the March raid that killed Breonna Taylor.
Interim Louisville Metro police Chief Yvette Gentry found Detective Myles Cosgrove violated department procedures in failing to “properly identify a target” before firing 16 rounds into Taylor’s apartment. An FBI investigation determined Cosgrove fired the fatal bullet which struck Taylor’s pulmonary artery moments after Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, shot Sergeant Jonathan Mattingly in the leg as officers forced entry into Taylor’s apartment, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Louisville police are reportedly also seeking to fire the officer who sought the no-knock warrant, Detective Joshua Jaynes. Jaynes did not participate in the deadly raid, but Gentry wrote in a pre-termination letter that his actions violated policy, endangered others, and tarnished the police department’s image.