A federal grand jury in Birmingham,
Ala., today returned a five-count indictment charging former city of Tuscaloosa
Police Sergeant Jason Glenn Thomas with federal civil rights offenses in
connection with the aggravated sexual assault of a Tuscaloosa woman in 2011,
announced Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights
Division, Joyce White Vance, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of
Alabama, and Patrick J. Maley, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Birmingham
Field Office.
Thomas is charged with violating the
constitutional rights of a Tuscaloosa woman by sexually assaulting her in March
2011. The indictment also charges Thomas
with obstruction of justice based upon misleading statements that he provided
to law enforcement officers during the investigation of the sexual assault
allegations.
Thomas faces a possible maximum sentence of
life in prison and a fine in excess of $1 million.
This case is being investigated by the
Tuscaloosa resident agency of the FBI’s Birmingham Field Office, and is being
prosecuted by Trial Attorney D.W. Tunnage of the Justice Department’s Civil
Rights Division, along with Assistant U.S. Attorney George Martin for the
District of Alabama.
An indictment is merely an accusation, and the
defendant is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.
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