Cincinnati officer acquitted in cover-up case loses job
A Cincinnati police officer acquitted at trial after prosecutors said he helped cover up a police sergeant's off-duty crash has been dismissed from the department for “medical” reasons, The Enquirer has learned.
The dismissal came to light in a one-sentence entry on a city Civil Service Commission agenda, because the now-former officer, Jason Cotterman, is fighting to get his job back. In his own words, the dismissal was for "being a little too stressed."
Cotterman was one of two officers charged with dereliction of duty and obstruction of justice after prosecutors said they tried to cover up the March 2015 off-duty crash involving Sgt. Andrew Mitchell. Both Cotterman and Sgt. Richard Sulfsted were found not guilty of all charges in March of this year.
During the trial, an internal affairs investigator read numerous text messages sent between Cotterman and Sulfsted in the days after the crash. Among the texts, Cotterman, apparently joking, said he was “worried I’m going to kill someone.”
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