Former St. Louis Metropolitan Police Officer Pleads Guilty To Committing Perjury

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Missouri: Bailey Colletta, 26, a former police officer with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD), pleaded guilty in federal court in the Eastern District of Missouri to one count of making false statements to a federal grand jury about her knowledge of the arrest and assault of a fellow SLMPD police officer, who was working undercover in downtown St. Louis during protests following the 2017 acquittal of a former SLMPD officer on a state murder charge.

Colletta’s co-defendants, SLMPD officers Dustin Boone, Randy Hays and Christopher Myers, remain under indictment on federal charges related to the assault and subsequent cover-up. They have pleaded not guilty. According to the plea agreement, in addition to facing a maximum of five years in prison, Colletta must forfeit her law enforcement certification. A sentencing date has been set for Dec. 13, 2019. The trial of Boone, Hayes and Myers is set for Dec. 2.