| Officer Nik Layton (left) with his daughter and wife, Ashley, during a tribute to fallen Officer Rod Bradway in 2013 (Star Photo) |
Officer Nikolas Layton, a 10-year veteran of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and son of Marion Co. Sheriff John Layton (D), has been arrested by his own police department on preliminary charges of dealing and possessing cocaine. Layton was arrested, along with Christopher Reed,33, and Victoria Purdy, 41. As a full-time police officer, Layton has been assigned to the hit-and-run investigation unit.
"This is obviously a heart breaking moment as a parent, especially as a parent who is also the Sheriff, and even more as the father of a police officer," said Sheriff Layton. "I have never tolerated this kind of alleged behavior in law enforcement. I have full faith in the criminal justice system, and I feel certain that justice will be done."
Indiana really is a banana republic. Layton must not have been sharing his drug proceeds with the right people. By the way, IMPD still takes the position it can't produce to Advance Indiana disciplinary records for its officers during a 2-year period because it just doesn't compile that sort of information. If IMPD Chief Troy Riggs isn's just a bag of wind, he will order Ted Nolting to turn over those documents to Advance Indiana post haste. Yeah, I'm talking to you, Ted. Isn't it time to come clean on the compilation of disciplinary records?
Hopefully this is just the beginning.
ReplyDeleteIt's never a beginning. This story will be forgotten about by next week.
ReplyDeleteSo, the wind farms in Indiana have been misplaced and are too far North?
ReplyDeleteWill Smokin Joe go forward with his plan to lower the qualifications for public safety director to open it up for Sheriff Layton so Kerry Forrestal can be appointed sheriff? Or does this throw a monkey wrench in that plan?
ReplyDeleteYet they demand our respect.... or else.
ReplyDelete"Indiana really is a banana republic." Sadly, yes. And making it worse. We have no actual bananas. So not only are we really St. Louis. We're Ferguson. Indianapolis is now one big Ferguson. On a good day maybe we're Baltimore. But if we don't get a grip on the violence in our 38th St corridor of death, we're going to be Chicago; and not the nice north side of Chicago; no, the awful south side. Our own little Baghdad, where every night is the shootout at the ok corral and morning brings the death count. And decent folks in Indianapolis are now all talking about moving. Because that's how that works.
ReplyDeleteI see in his future a guilty plea to a lesser charge (like possession) in an exchange for an IMPD medical retirement. (My suggestion: Crippling Type 2 Diabetes.)
ReplyDeleteIf the Owensby precedent is used...
http://advanceindiana.blogspot.com/2014/05/no-jail-time-for-dirty-cop.html
IMPD is a broken organization:to the point that as a juror I would never consider the testimony of any officer from the organization to have any merit. It's been 3 years and I'm still waiting for detective to call about a property damage incident to my property by a drunk driver. The drunken bimbo probably is family or has a sexual relationship with someone from the organization because that's how IMPD rolls.
ReplyDeleteNotice how evidence almost always goes missing from the evidence locker when one of their own is under scrutiny? The Owensby case is the perfect example. And, he is allowed to serve no jail time. That's because there are different levels of the law for all of us. If Irsay had killed a person while driving drunk and doped-up,by the time the case was over, the victim's family would be forced by the public,Gannet,TPTB and LE to apologize to Irsay.
And never forget....How IMPD and the Marion County Justice System did everything within its means in its vain attempt in allowing David Bisard never to be held accountable for his drunken rampage on 56th street.
Who cares what happens. Layton now saying he is putting 150-200 deputies on the street. How many have been to the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy?? Any one of them take a physical or psychological exam? Let the law suits begin. What a joke. Way to go Mayor Hogsett and your new Chief of what ever. Where is the FOP on this?
ReplyDeletedoes he know El Chapo?
ReplyDeleteFYI Anonymous 12:42, Ive been on the dept 17 yrs. Dont expect everyone to belive me on here, but I was on IPD before we merged with the political Sheriff dept. Does it look bad,,yes..its embarrassing. But no thats not how WE ALL ROLL. Nicks and idiot,,always has been,,ask anyone who worked with him..hes a biproduct of what happens when you get hired on the Sheriff dept because of who you know or write a check to..But dont include everyone in the same fishbowl as nick and bisard..both of them can sit in a cell for years to come for all i care.
ReplyDeleteYours truely, Mick the Irishman
wow, dude sure is a fatty arbuckle. how did he ever pass the physicals?
ReplyDeleteThis officer has been croockef his whole career! Planted things on me personally and I lost many years of my life because of it! Forget bananas!!!
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