GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Sheriff's Sergeant Sentenced for Civil Rights Violations

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: FBI

28January2011 7:59pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Lucas County Sheriff’s Sergeant John E. Gray was sentenced today in Ohio to three years in prison for federal civil rights violations and records falsification relating to the in-custody death of a pretrial detainee at the Lucas County Jail. Evidence at trial showed that in 2004 Gray assaulted the detainee in a cell at the Lucas County Jail and left him lying unconscious without seeking medical help. Thereafter, he wrote false reports concealing the incidents. (read full report)