The police officer from Louisville, Kentucky, who obtained the preventive arrest warrant and the police officer who fired the fatal bullet in the raid on Breonna Taylor’s home, received notification on Tuesday that the police department intends to fire them.
Det. Joshua Jaynes has been informed that the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department plans to terminate his job, a department spokesman told NBC News, and a lawyer at Det. Myles Cosgrove confirmed that he received a letter of termination from the department.
Police officers still have the right to a pre-termination hearing before they are officially fired, the spokesman said.
Jaynes wrote in a sworn statement sent to a Jefferson County judge who “verified through a United States postal inspector” that Taylor’s ex-boyfriend, Jamarcus Glover “was receiving packages” at Taylor’s home.
WAVE, an affiliate of NBC News, obtained the letter sent to Jaynes by LMPD Acting Chief Yvette Gentry, who noted that the detective “lied when he swore” that he spoke to a postal inspector.
“Detective Jaynes had no contact with a US postal inspector, he received information from Sergeant Mattingly, who obtained it from a Shively police officer,” wrote Gentry.
Glover was the target of a narcotics investigation and detectives broke into Taylor’s apartment in March to obtain evidence of the case. An internal department investigation revealed that Jaynes never spoke to a postal inspector.
Taylor was killed by police during the March 13 operation in her apartment, where the police found no drugs or money.
Cosgrove was one of the officers who participated in the operation and fired the shot that killed Taylor, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron said in September.
Cosgrove was the subject of a fundraiser in September, seeking $ 75,000 for Cosgrove to buy the rest of his service “so that he can retire and continue to focus on the safety of his family.”
