NEW ORLEANS—
Former New Orleans Police detective Jefferey Lehrmann has been charged with helping conceal a conspiracy by police to cover up a deadly police shooting of unarmed civilians on the Danziger Bridge after Hurricane Katrina.Jeffrey Lehrmann is the second former member of the police department to be charged in a federal probe of shootings on the Danziger Bridge that killed two people and wounded four others.
Police are accused of fabricating witness statements, falsifying reports and planting a gun in an attempt to make it appear the shootings were justified.
Michael Lohman, a retired lieutentant, earlier pleaded guilty to conspiring to obstruct justice.
The bill of information unsealed in U.S. District Court Tuesday charges Lehrmann, now a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Arizona, with misprision of a felony.
