WARREN The former Warren police officer who falsely said a black man in a hoodie shot at him will spend the next nine months in the state’s Lorain Correctional Institution.
Noah Linnen, 24, took full responsibility and expressed remorse for his actions on Jan. 13, 2020, and the days that followed, that had police officers from various departments searching for a person who did not exist.
“I had been experiencing a great deal of stress from my personal and professional lives that I clearly could not cope with,” Linnen said. “I thought I could handle everything on my own. I was wrong.”
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Former Warren police officer Noah Linnen, left, looks to his attorney Robert Kokor, right, while being handcuffed by Trumbull County Sheriffâs Office deputy Corey Burns, center, after being sentenced to nine months in prison by Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Andrew Logan on Tuesday.
Staff photo / R. Michael Semple
WARREN The former Warren police officer who falsely said a black man in a hoodie shot at him will spend the next nine months in the state’s Lorain Correctional Institution.
Noah Linnen, 24, took full responsibility and expressed remorse for his actions on Jan. 13, 2020, and the days that followed, that had police officers from various departments searching for a person who did not exist.
First published Dec. 21 in TheStatehouseFile.com
For 41 people incarcerated at Indiana Department of Correction facilities, a prison sentence became a death sentence from the pandemic that has claimed the lives of 7,000 Hoosiers.
Data for the toll on prisons is incomplete, with only totals of deaths and cases since the beginning of the pandemic listed. There is no statewide database on cases in jails. Once the virus enters the confined, crowded areas, the results can be deadly. On Dec. 8, 56-year-old Fred Whitlock died of COVID-19 in Vigo County Jail. Whitlock collapsed while carrying his breakfast to his bunk at the Terre Haute facility.