ST. LOUIS (CN) – A federal grand jury indicted a former Missouri police officer in a small town near Ferguson on charges of conspiring with the now-imprisoned former mayor to arrest a political foe.
Former Pine Lawn police Lt. Steven Blackeney had sued the city in January, claiming he was fired for blowing the whistle in an FBI investigation of Mayor Sylvester Caldwell.
Caldwell was sentenced in July to 33 months in federal prison for extortion.
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