A former Denton officer allegedly made false statements under oath after he arrested a man in 2023, accusing the man of evading arrest, according to documents the Denton Record-Chronicle obtained Wednesday.
The Denton Police Department previously announced in a news release Oct. 23 that a grand jury had indicted 43-year-old former officer Joel David Weinstein on one count of tampering with a governmental record.
The department reported that after it began investigating unrelated accusations of misconduct against two other officers in February, it discovered inconsistencies with an affidavit Weinstein wrote two years ago.
Weinstein left the department in March, after the department started investigating the other officers, who now also face criminal charges, but before it discovered Weinstein’s alleged false statements.
The arrest that led to the indictment occurred on Sept. 6, 2023, and involved a then-21-year-old Denton man who was charged with evading arrest or detention, resisting arrest and obstructing a passageway.
The Record-Chronicle wrote about the arrest in a blotter roundup published Sept. 7, 2023, after a department public information officer read portions of a report to the Record-Chronicle over the phone.
On Wednesday, the Record-Chronicle obtained a copy of the affidavit of probable cause referenced in Weinstein’s indictment. The affidavit bears Weinstein’s name as the affiant writing under oath.
Weinstein’s indictment alleges that he purposefully...
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