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Bail extended in Cleveland Police misconduct probe

FIVE people - including Cleveland’s Chief Constable and Deputy Chief Constable - who were arrested as part of Operation Sacristy have had their bail extended to later in the year.

Sean Price, the Chief Constable; Derek Bonnard, the Deputy Chief Constable and Caroline Llewellyn, the former Cleveland Police solicitor were arrested in August and were due to answer bail on Tuesday.

Their bail has now been extended to late October.

Councillor Dave McLuckie, the former chairman of Cleveland Police Authority, and an unnamed man who were due to answer their bail later in April have both had their bail extended to a date in mid-November.

Mr Price, Mr Bonnard and Cllr McLuckie have issued statements denying any wrongdoing.

Operation Sacristy was launched last May and is a criminal and misconduct investigation focused on a number of people with current or past associations with Cleveland Police Authority.

Almost 5,000 documents have been gathered and more than 700 people have been named as part of the investigation.

An Operation Sacristy spokesperson said: “Operation Sacristy continues to progress its investigation into criminal and conduct matters as quickly as is professionally possible.”



Ex-police officers face more charges

One has pleaded guilty; another has a hearing in district court

Polk County prosecutors this month filed charges against two former Des Moines police officers in connection with the 2008 use of excessive force case involving Octavius Bonds and Erin Evans.

Former officers Mersed Dautovic and John Mailander were charged with willful injury, felonius misconduct in office and perjury.

Mailander immediately entered a guilty plea. Dautovic has a hearing in Polk County court next week to learn why prosecutors believe he lied about the beating in court and on police documents.

Legal troubles for Dautovic and Mailander began to accelerate last September when the city of Des Moines agreed to pay $500,000 to settle a civil lawsuit filed by Bonds and Evans. Dautovic and Mailander were indicted three months later in federal court for obstructing justice and violating Bonds’ civil rights.

Two weeks ago, Polk County prosecutors quietly added the new charges.

Mailander pleaded guilty to the federal obstruction of justice charge and faces up to 20 years in prison. The new charges could add up to 20 more years in prison.

Dautovic faces up to 30 years in prison on the federal charges and up to 20 years on the state charges.

State court documents accuse both former officers of assaulting Bonds, of intentionally falsifying a police report and of lying during the March 2009 trial where Bonds and Evans faced misdemeanor charges for interference and assault. (Bonds and Evans were acquitted.)

Paperwork filed by Dautovic’s lawyer on the state charges contends that there simply aren’t enough details available in the case for him to adequately prepare a defense.

Sealed documents filed with the state-court trial information “generally outline the subject matters that the state alleges are the false statement and perjury concerns,” according to a motion filed by defense attorney J. Keith Rigg. “However, it does not list the specific portion of the report, or the particular question and answer alleged to be perjury in this case.”

Similarly, “the particular statement (in the police report) which is the basis for the charge had not been specified,” according to Rigg.

Dautovic’s court documents seek a more detailed explanation of the charges. A hearing is scheduled for Thursday before Judge Richard Blane II.

Mailander acknowledged in a January deal with federal prosecutors that he knew immediately that he and Dautovic had used excessive force while striking Bonds with a baton during a 2008 traffic stop. But it wasn’t mentioned in a report.

Mailander, who signed the police report and certified it as true, told federal authorities that he “knew these ASP strikes were relevant and should have been included in the Des Moines Police Department Case Investigation Report.” Court papers say Evans, now 24, and Bonds, now 27, were driving in the northbound left lane of Southeast 14th Street in Des Moines on Sept. 13, 2008, when Dautovic and Mailander overtook them while headed to a soon-canceled emergency call. The officers quickly stopped Evans’ fogged-up car to ask why she hadn’t yielded to their emergency vehicle.

Evans did not immediately roll down her window and was slow to produce identification, according to the lawsuit documents.

She eventually was threatened with pepper spray, pulled from the car by Mailander, and “kind of tossed” across the hood of the police car before being handcuffed.

Documents say Bonds was pepper sprayed after he partially climbed out of the car and failed to comply with commands to get back in.

Bonds at some point grabbed Dautovic’s hands while asking him to stop the pepper spray.

Both officers then hit Bonds with batons, including roughly 14 blows while he was on the ground curled up in a fetal position.

Court papers say Bonds suffered multiple wounds, including fractures that required metal plating in various parts of his body and a head injury that required eight staples to close.

Dautovic’s trials currently are scheduled to take place in May and July.