Source: WISH-TV
GREENFIELD, Ind. (WISH) — The constable for Marion County’s Center Township has been charged with five crimes in two cases, a special prosecutor in Hancock County announced Tuesday night.
Hancock County Prosecutor Brent Eaton was appointed as special prosecutor in August, and he has worked with Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department on the investigation.
In the separate Marion County cases filed by the special prosecutor, Denise Paul Hatch, 64, was charged with two felonies of official misconduct; a felony of attempted assisting a criminal; and misdemeanors of theft, and attempting resisting law enforcement.
Court documents say, in one case, Hatch in October tried to free a man who IMPD officers had placed into a police car. The man, who was a Center Township deputy constable, was wanted for criminal charges including unlawful carrying of a handgun. He’d been prohibited from carrying a handgun after a domestic violence conviction. IMPD had stopped the deputy constable after he was observed driving erratically, police say, and found a gun in his Ford truck.