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Fourth Paterson cop arrested by FBI, this time over beating of suicidal hospital patient
Fourth Paterson cop arrested by FBI, this time over beating of suicidal hospital patient
JOE MALINCONICO AND ANDREW FORD | PATERSON PRESS AND USA TODAY NETWORK
Updated 14 hours ago
Officer Roger Then, of the Paterson Police Department, has been arrested by FBI agents in connection with the beating of a suicidal hospital patient while the unnamed victim was in a wheelchair and in a hospital bed, according to court documents.
Then, 29, is the fourth Paterson police officer arrested by the FBI in the past two months, part of an ongoing federal probe that also has resulted in the arrests of three other city cops and the suspensions of two others.
He was arraigned in federal court in Newark on Wednesday and was released on bail.
Then is accused of making a video recording of the beating, which was allegedly carried out by an unidentified city police officer, according to a federal affidavit establishing probable cause for Then's arrest.
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JOE MALINCONICO AND ANDREW FORD | PATERSON PRESS AND USA TODAY NETWORK
Updated 14 hours ago
Officer Roger Then, of the Paterson Police Department, has been arrested by FBI agents in connection with the beating of a suicidal hospital patient while the unnamed victim was in a wheelchair and in a hospital bed, according to court documents.
Then, 29, is the fourth Paterson police officer arrested by the FBI in the past two months, part of an ongoing federal probe that also has resulted in the arrests of three other city cops and the suspensions of two others.
He was arraigned in federal court in Newark on Wednesday and was released on bail.
Then is accused of making a video recording of the beating, which was allegedly carried out by an unidentified city police officer, according to a federal affidavit establishing probable cause for Then's arrest.
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