Leap avoids jail, must do community service

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February 1, 2012

Anonymous The Lebanon Reporter The Lebanon Reporter Wed Feb 01, 2012, 02:57 AM EST

Lebanon — Former Lebanon police officer Jason Leap, 32, will avoid jail if he completes 40 hours of community service by the end of the year.

Leap’s community service will be teaching 4-H gun safety classes, if that proposal is accepted by Boone County 4-H. The seven-year Lebanon Police Department veteran, was originally charged with class D felony sexual battery, class D felony pointing a firearm and misdemeanor battery with bodily injury, after a July 18, 2010, incident at the Hi-Wa-Hut, 924 W. South St., Lebanon.

Indiana State Police Det. Paul Baker’s investigation of the Hi-Wa-Hut incident and testimony at a Dec. 15, 2010, probable cause hearing led to the criminal charges. Barry Brown was named as special prosecutor.

No one at the tavern, however, contacted Lebanon police or elected officials. Boone County Prosecutor Todd Meyer asked that the Indiana State Police to investigate the allegations after complaints were made to his office. Lebanon police had begun an “informal” internal investigation after hearing “rumors” of the incident, and learning that the ISP had become involved. Lebanon police turned over “what little we had to the state police,” LPD Lt. Brent Wheat said in August 2010.

See Wednesday’s Lebanon Reporter for more of this story.

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