Reading police officer facing new charges

Thursday, July 21, 2016
READING, Pa. (WPVI) -- A police officer from Reading, Pennsylvania, is again facing criminal charges. This comes less than a month after initial charges against him were dropped.


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Twenty-seven-year-old Jesus Santiago-DeJesus is accused of official oppression and tampering with evidence.

Prosecutors say surveillance video shows him physically confronting a woman and smashing the cell phone she was using to record him.
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He's also now accused of lying about what happened to his superiors.
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