BATON ROUGE – Four former East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office correctional deputies were indicted for abusing inmates, lying about their injuries, filing false reports and convincing other employees to lie for them.
A federal grand jury indicted Deputy Aaron Johnson, 29, Cpl. Kenyaki Domino, 29, Deputy Darius Powell, 24, and Cpl. Lionel James, 30, on 17 combined counts of civil rights violations while they were assigned to duty at the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison. The allegations date back to 2022 and 2023.
All four were indicted on charges of abuse of rights under the color of law, conspiracy and false report. Both Powell and Johnson were indicted on additional counts of witness tampering…