Former New Orleans Police Detective Pleads Guilty; Confirms Danziger Cover-Up

U.S. Newswire › March 11, 2010

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WASHINGTON, March 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A second former New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) officer has pleaded guilty to covering up a deadly police shooting in the days after Hurricane Katrina, the Justice Department today announced.

Jeffrey Lehrmann, a former NOPD detective who currently works as a special agent for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, pleaded guilty to misprision of a felony (a charge for concealing a known felony), for failing to report a conspiracy to obstruct justice in the investigation of a police-involved shooting on the Danziger Bridge in New Orleans. The Sept. 4, 2005, shooting left two civilians dead and four others seriously injured.

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Former New Orleans Police Detective Pleads Guilty; Confirms Danziger Cover-Up

On Sept. 4, 2005, days after Hurricane Katrina, two police- involved shootings occurred on the Danziger Bridge. The east side shooting resulted in the death of one civilian and the wounding of four others. A second shooting on the west side resulted i...

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