A special prosecutor made the filing Monday.
Jacob Forgey, 28, is accused of faking a warrant to get into a fraternity house in November 2023 — which sparked a larger review of all of Forgey’s cases.WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Dozens of cases are being thrown out after a review of body camera footage from a former
Special Prosecutor Rodney Cummings charged Forgey with felony counts of official misconduct and counterfeiting.According to court documents, Forgey suspected people were smoking marijuana on the house’s balcony.The incident sparked a larger review of all of Forgey’s cases during his less than two years at the department.The video is from a February 2023 incident where Forgey pulled over a 20-year-old woman for speeding.
“I think I smell marijuana, but I’m not sure. I can’t get a return on her. He is just straight-facing,” Forgey is heard saying in the body cam video.“No there is not,” she responded.“No, not stop until you finish the test. Do you understand?” Forgey said in the video.Former fire chief in Delaware County and his wife charged with stealing from volunteer fire department
“In the police report, he’s unequivocal that he smells marijuana, and he bases his search on that smell, but in the video, it’s clear that he is very uncertain about that,” Jaffe said. “If he was in front of a judge and this is a suppression to whether he had probable cause to search and he answered that way, no judge is going to say that it was an appropriate search.”“For one, they are discretionary in terms of how they are scored.
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