Po­lice Con­sta­ble Ste­fon Khan has been grant­ed bail with sure­ty in the sum of $350,000 af­ter be­ing charged with mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice. The charge fol­lowed an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the tam­per­ing and theft of po­lice ex­hibits.

Khan ap­peared vir­tu­al­ly be­fore Mas­ter Rhea Lib­ert at the Ch­agua­nas Mas­ters Court on May 7. Bail con­di­tions re­quire him to re­side at his home, avoid con­tact with wit­ness­es, and ob­tain court ap­proval be­fore leav­ing the coun­try. A sta­tus hear­ing has been set for Ju­ly 10. He re­mains in cus­tody at the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Recre­ation­al Fa­cil­i­ty un­til the ex­pi­ra­tion of the cur­rent state of emer­gency.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion be­gan af­ter a fa­tal po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion on Feb­ru­ary 24. A Crime Scene In­ves­ti­ga­tor col­lect­ed ex­hibits in­clud­ing a firearm, am­mu­ni­tion, and two blocks of cannabis weigh­ing ap­prox­i­mate­ly 2.2 kilo­grams. These were sealed and stored in the Ch­agua­nas Po­lice Sta­tion stron­groom.