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Four Baton Rouge police officers have been charged with crimes as a result of an internal investigation into a disbanded street-crimes unit, whose members have also become the target of civil lawsuits alleging police abuses and sexual humiliation.
NAKAMOTO: Arrest warrants issued for four Baton Rouge Police Officers tied to corruption in street crimes unit
The Baton Rouge Police Department charged three of its officers and a deputy chief with trying to hide their use of stun guns during a strip search.
BATON ROUGE - The Baton Rouge Police Department held a press conference Friday detailing what led to criminal charges for several police officers implicated in the investigation into the agency's Street Crimes division.
Three Baton Rouge police officers have been hit with criminal charges as investigators probe allegations that a street crime unit turned an unmarked warehouse dubbed the “Brave Cave” into a torture chamber where innocent people were assaulted, stripped, and subjected to body cavity searches, the police chief said Friday.