Muncie officers face excessive force counts
Associated Press
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.
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INDIANAPOLIS A fourth officer has been indicted by a U.S. District Court grand jury investigating allegations of excessive force by the Muncie Police Department.
Also named in the new indictment is officer Corey Posey, 28, accused of writing a false police report and charged with obstruction.
The revised indictment adds new allegations related to excessive force and false reporting against Winkle, 34, and Gibson, 30.
Winkle is on administrative leave from his police duties without pay, and has also been suspended by the Muncie Police Merit Commission.
He is now charged with five counts of depriving five different arrestees of their rights to be free from excessive force, as well as two other arrestees, according to a release by the U.S. Attorney s office.
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