LEBANON — A jury rejected Lee Everitt's claims of police brutality Tuesday and said the 56-year-old plumber was guilty of assaulting Lebanon Officer Chris Brock and trying to steal his gun during a traffic stop.

        As deputies led him off to jail in handcuffs, Mr. Everitt told Officer Brock: “I hope God forgives you, Chris.”

        Mr. Everitt will face up to 16 years in prison when Judge Neal Bronson sentences him in about a month on charges of aggravated robbery, assault and failure to comply with a police order.

        Mr. Everitt suffered a scalp cut that required 14 staples as a result of blows from Officer Brock's expandable baton during the Aug. 26 scuffle at Warren and High streets.

        Mr. Everitt's relatives contend the case was a vendetta by police that dated to 1999 when Officer Brock and three others arrested Mr. Everitt's adult son for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after breaking up a loud party.

        Complaints of excessive force then led to an internal investigation that eventually cleared the officers of wrongdoing. Family members allege that Lebanon police have harassed them and followed them ever since.

        “It won't end here,” Mr. Everitt's sister, Paula Miller, of Lebanon, said.

        Police officials deny picking on the family.

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