A Louisiana state trooper with a history of at least five “at-fault” car accidents is up for a plush job within the force.
Many of his colleagues are furious, saying despite having a speckled record, his dad being a former bigwig on the force gives him privileges others are not afforded.
Sources say his colleagues think his reckless driving should have made him ineligible to serve in the new position.
Officer Kaleb Reeves has been named in three “at-fault” accidents since joining the Louisiana State Police. One of these accidents resulted in the deaths of Kajenne Lindsey, 18, and Anjenne Lindsey, 11, in Baton Rouge on Friday, Oct. 2, 2020. The girls’ father was in the car and survived, only sustaining non-life-threatening injuries. The cop rear-ended the car the two Monroe natives were in with a marked state police SUV, 4WWL reported.
Reeves only received a four-month suspension from his duties for his role in the accident and never was criminally charged.
Now, the trooper will soon be transferred to the department’s intelligence division even with these outrageous blemishes on his record, according to WBRZ.
The mother of the two victims believes Reeves “shouldn’t be getting promoted.”
“He should be in jail. He killed both of my daughters. That was my life. My joy. They were my everything,” Sonita Capers said to WBRZ.
The three car crashes with the state are not his only motor vehicle accidents. The trooper was also responsible for several other crashes at his previous job before being hired by State Police.
Public records show he was involved in three other car wrecks while working in the Jackson Parish Sheriff’s Office. Like the deadly 2020 crash, two of the accidents in Jackson Parish were considered “at-fault.”
Jackson Parish Sheriff Andy Brown says when Reeves was interviewing to work for the State Police, no one from the agency’s human resources inquired about his crash history. An…
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