Former State Police leader Colonel Kevin Reeves has agreed to turn over his personal journals by tomorrow afternoon if they remain sealed from public view in order to avoid a contempt charge. Houma Representative Tanner Magee is seeking to hold Reeves in contempt after he withheld certain pages from the journals from a committee investigating the state police custody death of Ronald Greene.
“Two or three pages that he’s withheld from us and determined whether they are worth being withheld, if he agrees to that than I will agree to defer this (contempt charge) for now,” said Magee.
Reeves’ attorney Lewis Unglesby says his client has nothing to hide and the pages lawmakers are seeking to see do not contain any new information about Greene’s death.
“Come over to my office, we’ll show the pages that he wants to extract, but you are going to see exactly what I told you,’ said Unglesby.
Reeves’ personal financial information contained in the journals will be redacted.
A special House committee looking into Greene’s violent arrest by State Police in May of 2019 in Union Parish says Reeves’ journal entries are critical to an investigation into a possible cover-up by State Police. But Unglesby believes it’s unfair how the committee is treating Reeves.
“Colonel Kevin Reeves is not the cause of any problems that are being investigated, nor did he harm Ronald Green, nor did he fail in his duties in anyway,” said Reeves.
Unglesby says the blame should be put on Trooper Chris Hollingsworth who was involved in Greene’s beating. Hollingsworth died 16 months later in a single-vehicle crash.
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