Philip Dupree, who was working as an officer with the Fairmount Heights Police Department at the time, was sentenced on Wednesday, July 16, to six years and two months in federal prison, the Department of Justice announced.
The sentence follows Dupree’s conviction in June 2024, after a weeklong jury trial in which prosecutors said he crossed the line during a stop on Aug. 4, 2019.
According to trial evidence, prosecutors say Dupree pulled over a driver while on duty in DC. After detaining the man, he pepper sprayed him while the man was handcuffed and sitting in the backseat of Dupree’s marked police car…