A former Denton officer allegedly made false statements under oath after he arrested a man in 2023, accusing the man of evading arrest, according to documents the Denton Record-Chronicle obtained Wednesday.
The Denton Police Department previously announced in a news release Oct. 23 that a grand jury had indicted 43-year-old former officer Joel David Weinstein on one count of tampering with a governmental record.
The department reported that after it began investigating unrelated accusations of misconduct against two other officers in February, it discovered inconsistencies with an affidavit Weinstein wrote two years ago…