BATON ROUGE – A Louisiana State Police trooper who allegedly covered up evidence and coerced a domestic violence victim to repeatedly lie to law enforcement investigating him was arrested Tuesday.
Trooper James Jefferson III, 41, was taken into custody by the attorney general’s office.
According to new documents obtained by the WBRZ Investigative Unit, Jefferson allegedly strangled his wife and hit her with his car before pressuring her to lie about the incidents to investigating officers…