A police main and an additional officer in the modest city of Brookville, Indiana, were suspended following a hearing exposed that they reportedly arrested a town council applicant who they thought was anti-law enforcement.

Brookville Police Main Terry Mitchum and investigating officer Ryan Geiser were set on compensated depart by that very same council following details that emerged relating to legal costs that had been introduced from prospect Trevin Thalheimer, who has because dropped out of the race, the Washington Post reported.

"I realized politics was soiled, but I did not know I’d have to dumpster dive," Thalheimer instructed the Publish. Thalheimer reported soon after he spent roughly an hour in jail he made a decision to no lengthier run for office in the city of just 2,500 individuals.

It was January 30 when Thalheimer was arrested on suspicion of rape, possession of marijuana and possession of paraphernalia, in accordance to the Greensburg Day by day News. Franklin County Prosecutor Chris Huerkamp has considering that dropped all costs after mastering data that remaining him "disturbed over and above phrases."

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According to the Post, a witness who is mates with Thalheimer testified at a July 19 listening to that three times before Thalheimer's arrest Geiser requested her about working for the city council seat. She claimed Geiser pointed out his perception that Thalheimer was not a supporter of law enforcement.

"We do not want him on the city board mainly because he hates cops," the witness recalled Geiser expressing about Thalheimer.

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Immediately after that cellphone connect with, the Submit documented, Geiser investigated a assert by Thalheimer's neighbor that goods from his residence ended up missing after Thalheimer was intended to be seeing the residence. Through the investigation, Geiser reportedly spoke to Thalheimer's roommate and smelled marijuana, foremost to him getting a lookup warrant and arresting Thalheimer – not just for the alleged marijuana possession, but for a rape accusation from months before that prosecutors experienced previously decided was inadequate to assistance a scenario.

In the course of the listening to, Geiser said he experienced heard that there was new evidence in the rape situation, but he did not know what it was. He also reportedly explained that it was Mitchum who ordered Thalheimer's arrest. He also pointed out that Mitchum was "not a large supporter" of Thalheimer.

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Huerkamp has because referred the matter to the Indiana Point out Law enforcement. A point out law enforcement spokesperson explained to the Submit that the investigation was "in its earliest phases."

WHD News has arrived at out to the two the state law enforcement and Huerkamp's office environment for remark but neither immediately responded.