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Lawsuit
: Paterson Police Officers Beat Man In Hospital After Suicide Attempt, Videotaped It
A Paterson man has filed a lawsuit against the City of Paterson, its police department and a pair of officers who beat him in the hospital just after attempting suicide. Andrew Casciano of Paterson filed the federal civil rights lawsuit Wednesday, weeks after Paterson police officers Roger Then and Ruben McAusland were sentenced to prison for attacking him in St. Joseph Regional Medical Center and recording it, NJ.com reports. Officers McAusland and Then responded to Casciano's 9-1-1 call March 5, 2018, when he asked for help during a suicide attempt, the article says. Video footage …
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Former Paterson Police Officer Gets 6 Months In Federal Pen For Video'd Hospital Assault
A former Paterson police officer must serve six months in federal prison for concealing the assault of a hospitalized suicidal man by his partner, which he recorded with his cellphone. Roger Then, 29, of Paterson, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Newark after pleading guilty last December to misprison of felony for concealing the civil rights crime committed by his partner, Ruben McAusland, at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson. McAusland was sentenced last week to 5½ years for the assault. ****** SEE: A former Paterson police officer will spend 5½ years in federal pr…
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Paterson Officer Who Beat Hospital Patient, Sold Stolen Drugs Gets 5½ Years In Federal Pen
A former Paterson police officer will spend 5½ years in federal prison for assaulting a hospitalized attempted suicide victim -- while his partner recorded it -- and selling drugs that he stole from crime scenes while on duty following his sentencing in U.S. District Court in Newark on Wednesday. Because there is no parole in the federal prison system, 27-year-old Ruben McAusland of Paterson will have to serve just about all of the 66-month sentence handed down by U.S. District Judge William H. Walls. Walls also sentenced McAusland to three years of supervised release and ordered him to pay…