After a federal judge dismissed the most serious charges against them, two former Louisville Metro Police officers are indicted again in the Breonna Taylor case.
The superseding indictment filed on Tuesday amends the original indictments against Joshua Jaynes and Kyle Meany.
Both former officers are accused of depriving Taylor of her rights. Jaynes is facing two additional charges of conspiracy and falsification of records in a federal investigation. Meany is also charged with providing a false statement to federal investigators.
Jaynes was a detective in the Place-Based Investigations (PBI) unit, and Meany was a Sergeant in the unit.
Federal prosecutors argued Jaynes falsified the warrant that led officers to Taylor’s home, and Meany approved it, knowing it contained false information.
Additionally, they argued Jaynes and Meany “planned to execute the warrant in a manner that heightened the risk of gunfire” by executing it at night and at the same time as the other raids on Elliott Avenue.
Prosecutors also said Meany knew Taylor’s boyfriend at the time had a concealed carry deadly weapon permit, and didn’t make note of that in the warrant affidavit or tell the officers who executed the warrant.
The new indictment comes after federal Judge Charles Simpson ruled the warrant was not the cause of Taylor’s death.
Source: WHAS11
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