Milwaukee police officers charged in in-custody death of Keishon Thomas bound over for trial

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Two Milwaukee police officers charged in connection to the in-custody death of Keishon Thomas were bound over for trial Tuesday, April 4. 

Donald Krueger, 49, is charged with abuse of a resident of a penal facility, and Marco Lopez, 40, is charged with misconduct in public office.

Each entered a plea of not guilty Tuesday. 

Twenty-year-old Keishon Thomas died at Milwaukee Police Department District 5 on Feb. 23, 2022 after being taken into custody following a traffic violation. 

He died after being found in need of medical attention in his jail cell. A criminal complaint said Thomas admitted to ingesting drugs before his arrest. His cause of death was determined to be acute mixed drug intoxication.

The complaint says Krueger neglected Thomas by failing to give him medical attention despite seeing him dry heave multiple times and being informed that he had recently ingested multiple controlled substances. Investigators say Lopez then intentionally made false entries in a report, "reflecting numerous inmate checks and inmate counts that never occurred."

Krueger retired in November of 2022.

Lopez is currently on full suspension.