An Indianapolis
Metropolitan Police Department officer was found guilty Wednesday of official
misconduct and failure to stop after an accident resulting in property damage.
A judge found Matthew Elam
not guilty of a third charge, false reporting.
Elam, 42, was arrested in November 2010, accused of attempting to cover up a June 15, 2010, hit-and-run crash in his patrol car by getting the vehicle repaired at a civilian body shop.
Elam, 42, was arrested in November 2010, accused of attempting to cover up a June 15, 2010, hit-and-run crash in his patrol car by getting the vehicle repaired at a civilian body shop.
A grand jury indicted Elam
on the three charges. Official misconduct is a felony. The other two charges
were misdemeanors.
Elam, who has been
suspended pending his trial, also had a more recent run-in with authorities
when police officers found him March 31 unresponsive in a pickup truck in the
drive-through lane of a Steak n Shake restaurant. He was charged following that
incident with operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
Elam returns to court at 1
p.m. Sept. 6 to be sentenced in the earlier case.