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Massachusetts Cop Indicted for Lying About Checking Cell of Prisoner Who Died of Drug Overdose
Loaded on Sept. 1, 2021
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2021, page 25
Filed under:
Drug Overdose,
Medical Neglect/Malpractice,
False Statements/Perjury.
Location:
Massachusetts.
In May 2021, a former Brockton, Massachusetts police officer was indicted for allegedly lying about performing checks on a man in police custody who died in his cell of a drug overdose.
Alfonso Brandao, 27, was arrested on November 13, 2020, after crashing his car into a police cruiser and ...
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