The FBI arrested Joshua Jaynes, the former Louisville Metro Police Detective LMPD who was first reassigned to administrative duty and later fired for lying on the search warrant connected to the fatal raid at Breonna Taylor’s Louisville, Kentucky home in March 2020.
Three others were also arrested, including Brett Hankison, the only officer to face state charges in the case (he was later acquitted), as Courier Journal reports.
Jaynes was taken into custody on Thursday and faces federal charges.
Former detective Hankison and two additional LMPD — Kelly Hanna Goodlett and Kyle Meany — are also facing federal charges.
On Thursday, US Attorney General Merrick Garland held a press conference announcing the charges.
According to CNN, Jaynes, Goodlett, and Meany were charged with conspiracy for violating Taylor’s Fourth Amendment Rights by submitting a false affidavit to search Taylor’s home when they conspired to create a “false cover story in an attempt to escape responsibility for their roles in preparing the warrant affidavit that contained false information”.
On Thursday, Hankison was charged with two counts of deprivation of civil rights.
