According to reports, four Baton Rouge Police Department officers were indicted on Tuesday for an incident that occurred in September 2020, when one officer allegedly abused a suspect and the other three allegedly tried to cover up the incident.
lawyerThe Baton Rouge-based newspaper reported that officers Douglas Chatz Jr., Todd Thomas and Troy Lawrence Sr. were indicted by a grand jury on charges of obstruction of justice, conspiracy to obstruct justice and misconduct in office.
Additionally, Martell Jackson, who allegedly reported the officers’ actions, was charged with misconduct in office.
On September 29, 2020, rap artist NBA Ugboy was one of 16 people arrested in the state capital on drug and firearms charges.
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Four Baton Rouge police officers were indicted Tuesday on charges they allegedly covered up the mistreatment of a suspect by officers in September 2020. (WAFB)
The rapper’s real name is Kentrell Goldin, and on the night of his arrest, he was filming a music video near an abandoned building when police stormed in.
Gorden and 15 others were arrested that afternoon, and officers claim they seized multiple firearms.
Then-Chief Murphy Paul said in September 2023 that officers used an electric stun gun to get a suspect to comply when they attempted to strip search him in a police station restroom.
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Kentrell Goldin, also known as NBA YoungBoy, was arrested during a police raid on a rap video in September 2020 and is facing federal firearms charges. (Eli Lucero/Herald Journal via The Associated Press)
The newspaper obtained arrest records and reported that one of the officers told investigators the man began screaming, and additional officers, including Lawrence Sr., rushed to the bathroom.
Paul said the officer’s body camera was activated when the stun gun was used and showed the suspect being hit, while a package reportedly fell out of the suspect’s anus, which the officer claims he believes to be synthetic marijuana.
An arrest warrant issued for the officers’ arrest noted that the cameras were hidden and not returned.
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Police raided a rap video filming location in September 2020, during which one officer allegedly used a stun gun on a suspect and tried to get him to submit to a strip search in a bathroom. (iStock)
Even though the incident was recorded on video, the officers are accused of conspiring to create letters claiming the cameras were lost or missing.
According to the indictment, Thomas was the only officer who struck the suspect.
District Attorney Hiller Moore said Tuesday that charges against the other officers are related to the destruction of evidence.
Representatives for Moore, the Baton Rouge Police Department and Goldin did not respond to inquiries from Fox News Digital about the case.
NBA YoungBoy has had multiple run-ins with the law before, and on April 16, he was arrested at his Huntsville, Alabama home while on house arrest while awaiting trial on weapons charges stemming from a 2020 music video shoot.
He also faces 63 felony and misdemeanor charges related to his fraudulent prescription business, including identity fraud, obtaining prescriptions under false pretenses, forgery, possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under custody, engaging in a series of unlawful activities and possession of a controlled substance.
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Three other people involved in the case are accused of traveling to nearby pharmacies to pick up prescriptions for medicines that were dispensed based on fake orders from people posing as real doctors.
Additional charges related to the prescription fraud case were filed against Gaulden in Weber County on April 26. The charges included a second-degree felony count of possession of a dangerous weapon by a controlled person and two class A misdemeanor counts of distribution of a controlled substance.
He was being held without bail in that case.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
