"This is not Stafford's first brush with the wrong side of the law. In October 2011, he was indicted by a Rapides Parish grand jury on two counts of aggravated rape."
The indictment alleged that he had raped two different victims, one in September 2004 and the other in February 2011. But, in May 2012, the case was dismissed without prejudice, which meant that the charges could be brought again.
Marksville officers wear body cameras, and Edmonson said the video investigators viewed was from a body camera.
Col. Mike Edmonson, Louisiana State Police superintendent, speaks about the arrest of two Marksville Ward 2 deputy marshals. In the background is Marksville Police Chief Elster Smith Jr. One of the men arrested, Derrick Stafford, is a Marksville Police Department lieutenant. (Photo: Miranda Klein/mquartemon@thetowntalk.com)
Stafford and Greenhouse are both named in a federal lawsuit filed against the Marksville police (you can read the lawsuit above). A man named Ian Fridge said he was tackled by officers and hit with a stun gun while he was at a Fourth of July event in Marksville.
Fridge, an open carry advocate, says in the lawsuit he was carrying a gun openly when the officers grabbed him from behind. Fridge said the officers took his cell phone and deleted the video he took of the incident. The case, filed in late July, is still pending.
Stafford Was Charged With Aggravated Rape in 2011
Stafford was indicted on two counts of aggravated rape in 2011, while he was a Marksville police officer, according to the archives of the Alexandria Town Talk. The outcome of the case was not immediately available Friday night.
Then 28, Stafford, of Alexandria, was indicted by a Rapides Parish jury, the Town Talk reported at the time.
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