Mike Winters v. City of Evansville

CRONE, Judge.

Case Summary

[1] While working a second job as a school security officer, Corporal Mike Winters, a thirty-year veteran of the Evansville Police Department (“EPD”), grabbed a sixteen-year-old student’s crotch in an apparently misguided attempt to teach him about the dangers of fighting. The student’s family did not press criminal charges but did file an internal affairs complaint against Winters. EPD’s chief issued a personnel order finding that Winters committed eight violations of EPD’s rules and regulations, suspending him for twenty-one days without pay, and recommending his…