Brent Thompson, 21, of Metairie, is accused of falsely claiming that he was the victim of two rapes while incarcerated at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center in Gretna, authorities said.
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By Michelle Hunter, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
on March 16, 2015 at 4:18 PM, updated March 16, 2015 at 4:51 PM
A Metairie man jailed at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center in Gretna after his arrest on domestic abuse charges lied about being raped by another inmate in hopes that it might convince authorities to release him, according to a Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office arrest report.
Deputies first arrested Brent Thompson, 21, on Feb. 16 after a woman accused him of hitting her, dragging her by the hair back into a residence and refusing to allow her to leave while armed with a knife, court records said.
Thompson was booked with false imprisonment while armed with a weapon, domestic abuse battery, resisting an officer and resisting arrest by refusing to provide identification, the arrest report said.
Bond was set at $22,500. But Thompson was also being held without bond on three outstanding traffic attachments.
While at the jail on Feb. 24, Thompson reported he had been raped by another inmate at the facility on Feb. 19 and 18, an arrest report said. Sheriff's Office Sgt. Aaron Wilkie handled the investigation.
When the detective spoke with Thompson, he recanted the rape, but insisted that another inmate committed sexual battery against him, the arrest report said. The exact details of the allegation were not available. But the legal definition of sexual battery includes the intentional touching of another person's genitals without the victim's permission.
Thompson then gave a statement to Wilkie recounting the battery allegation, which the detective noted contained several inconstancies. Wilkie learned why on March 6 when he reviewed a recorded jailhouse telephone call that Thompson placed to an unidentified friend, according to the arrest report.
In the call, Thompson said he had been untruthful and lied about the entire incident "thinking it would expedite his release from jail," the arrest report said.
Wilkie rebooked Thompson, of 5244 Quincy St., Metairie, on March 6 with filing false public records. A judge set no bond on the new charge, court records said.
