Former DC police lieutenant indicted for leaking information to Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio

The Department of Justice charged and arrested Shane Lamond, a former Washington DC police lieutenant, on Friday on an indictment that he obstructed an investigation and made false statements as well as leaked information to Enrique Tarrio, the leader of The Proud Boys.

Mr Lamond, 47, was indicted by a grand jury in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on one count of obstruction of justice and three counts of making false statements, according to a statement from the Department of Justice

According to the indictment, Mr Lamond, who worked as a supervisor of the Metropolitan Police Department’s (MPD)’s Homeland Security Bureau, was in “regular contact” with Mr Tarrio about The Proud Boys activities in DC.

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