LOGANSPORT, Ind. — A Logansport man said he deserved to be arrested for drinking and driving, but not what he experienced inside the Cass Co. jail.
Blake Stewardson has filed a lawsuit after saying he was slammed into a wall, tripped, beaten, stripped, tied to a chair and harassed by officers and staff of the jail. He says while all of this was happening to him, he was handcuffed and defenseless.
“There was blood all over, ” Stewardson told News 18’s Kayla Sullivan. “I thought I was going to die and I was held down for what felt like forever.”
Stewardson’s attorney Duran Keller says he has the highest respect for law enforcement, but he doesn’t respect what happened to Stewardson inside the jail. He took the case to hold those officers accountable.
Defendants named in the lawsuit are Cass Co. Sheriff Randy Pryor, jailers Christopher Titus and Cameron Biggs, and Logansport Police Department Patrolman Joseph Schlosser.
The lawsuit doesn’t say if Pryor was present during the incident on Jan. 1, but did say Pryor was notified about the use of unreasonable force by the officers and didn’t respond to the violations.
On Monday Pryor told the Pharos-Tribune everything had been turned over to the county attorney.
You can find Stewardson’s full complaint by clicking here.
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