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Thu 03 Mar 2010Ex-policeman admits shooting cover-up
A former New Orleans police detective who now works as a US immigration agent has pleaded guilty to helping cover up the shooting dead of two people by police days after Hurricane Katrina, the Justice Department said today.
Jeffrey Lehrmann (38) pleaded guilty to covering up the shooting and failing to report the conspiracy to prevent discovery of the incident on the Danziger Bridge in eastern New Orleans on September 4th 2005, the department said.
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