Edmonton, AB (Edmonton Journal) – An Alberta Mountie has been sentenced to four months of house arrest for assaulting a prisoner in 2009.
Const. Jonathan Travis Lepine pleaded guilty in May to the assault on Wayne Eagle, which took place June 8, 2009.
According to the sentencing report, Eagle, a chronic alcoholic, had been taken to the Wetaskiwin RCMP detachment because he was drunk to the point where he wasn’t responding to officers.
Wetaskiwin is about 70 kilometres south of Edmonton.
When he arrived at the detachment, Lepine grabbed Eagle by the hood of his jacket, pulled him out of the car and threw him onto the garage floor.
Lepine later dragged Eagle by his right foot along the floor to a jail cell, causing his body to strike the door on the way in, court heard.
Lepine then swung Eagle by his leg, throwing him against the back wall of the cell.
Provincial court Judge B.D. Rosborough noted in the report that Lepine, an RCMP officer since 2006, was suffering from major depression and post-traumatic stress disorder resulting from his time working in Hobbema, Alta. — a troubled community that has struggled with gang violence — from 2006 to 2008.
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