Post by WaTcHeR on May 25, 2006 14:01:04 GMT -5
05.25.2006 - An Indianapolis police officer was ordered to take an anger management course and fined Wednesday after pleading guilty to beating and choking a man he was questioning.
Frank Jameson admitted attacking Keith Jerome Ellis, 18, in March while interrogating him about a kidnapping.
Judge Linda Brown gave Jameson a suspended one-year sentence and fined him $50. He choked Ellis in a police interview room and then hit him before choking and hitting him a second time.
Ellis is in jail awaiting trial on the kidnapping charges. Jameson, 58, could not be reached for comment.
Another city police officer reported the incident to authorities and said she had to kick Jameson to get him to stop striking Ellis. A detective at the time in the Downtown District, Jameson, who has been with the Indianapolis Police Department for 35 years, spent two days in custody after he was arrested for misdemeanor battery in March.
Jameson faced up to a year in jail for the misdemeanor and up to a $5,000 fine.
The court ordered Jameson to attend anger management classes, which Jameson told the court he already had started. Jameson also was placed on 180 days' probation and ordered to have no contact with Ellis.
In 2000, Jameson was accused of assaulting and threatening to shoot a former girlfriend. He was charged with intimidation, battery and false informing.
He admitted grabbing the woman by her arm. In exchange for having the charges dropped, he agreed to undergo domestic-violence counseling. Jameson also served a three-day suspension stemming from vandalism and other incidents involving the woman, who had filed about 20 police reports against Jameson.
Jameson was removed from detective work after the March incident and placed on administrative duty.
Ellis was charged with kidnapping, criminal confinement, robbery, intimidation and auto theft. He is scheduled for a pretrial conference June 27, and no trial date has been set.
Not long after charges were filed against him, Jameson was demoted from lieutenant to sergeant and reassigned from detective duty to Downtown street patrol, according to a police spokesman.
He is now working a street beat in the North District. Police said the demotion came after an internal investigation.
Vince Huber, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, said that in general, felony convictions prohibit people from being police officers. Jameson faced a misdemeanor charge.
Frank Jameson admitted attacking Keith Jerome Ellis, 18, in March while interrogating him about a kidnapping.
Judge Linda Brown gave Jameson a suspended one-year sentence and fined him $50. He choked Ellis in a police interview room and then hit him before choking and hitting him a second time.
Ellis is in jail awaiting trial on the kidnapping charges. Jameson, 58, could not be reached for comment.
Another city police officer reported the incident to authorities and said she had to kick Jameson to get him to stop striking Ellis. A detective at the time in the Downtown District, Jameson, who has been with the Indianapolis Police Department for 35 years, spent two days in custody after he was arrested for misdemeanor battery in March.
Jameson faced up to a year in jail for the misdemeanor and up to a $5,000 fine.
The court ordered Jameson to attend anger management classes, which Jameson told the court he already had started. Jameson also was placed on 180 days' probation and ordered to have no contact with Ellis.
In 2000, Jameson was accused of assaulting and threatening to shoot a former girlfriend. He was charged with intimidation, battery and false informing.
He admitted grabbing the woman by her arm. In exchange for having the charges dropped, he agreed to undergo domestic-violence counseling. Jameson also served a three-day suspension stemming from vandalism and other incidents involving the woman, who had filed about 20 police reports against Jameson.
Jameson was removed from detective work after the March incident and placed on administrative duty.
Ellis was charged with kidnapping, criminal confinement, robbery, intimidation and auto theft. He is scheduled for a pretrial conference June 27, and no trial date has been set.
Not long after charges were filed against him, Jameson was demoted from lieutenant to sergeant and reassigned from detective duty to Downtown street patrol, according to a police spokesman.
He is now working a street beat in the North District. Police said the demotion came after an internal investigation.
Vince Huber, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, said that in general, felony convictions prohibit people from being police officers. Jameson faced a misdemeanor charge.