Two Cincinnati officers indicted this week in the April abduction of a 22-year-old North Fairmount man were released on their own recognizance Wednesday after a night in jail. They are scheduled to be arraigned Friday.

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        Neither officer — Spc. Michael Mercer or Officer Robert Litman — could be reached for comment. Attorney Merlyn Shiverdecker appeared as Spc. Mercer's representative at a bond hearing, but he did not return phone calls later.

        A woman who answered the phone at Officer Litman's home Wednesday declined comment.

        On Wednesday, an attorney for Courtney Evans gave more details from his account of what happened during the early-morning hours of April 13. Kenneth Lawson said his client testified before a Hamilton County grand jury about the case on Monday.

        According to Mr. Evans, he was standing on Borden Street in Cumminsville shortly before 2:30 a.m. when the two officers approached him in a marked patrol car, got out of the vehicle and, without saying a word, handcuffed him and pushed him into the rear of the cruiser.

        When they arrived in Mount Airy Forest, Mr. Evans said, the officers sprayed him with a chemical irritant, jabbed him with a nightstick and left him. He was found minutes later by another Cincinnati police officer. He later filed a complaint with Cincinnati police.

        The incident appears similar to what officers used to call “Greyhound therapy,” meaning they'd get a bus ticket for a particularly annoying homeless person — to get them out of their jurisdiction.

        Officers in both Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky joke about the old days when they would drive someone across the river and leave them.

        The officers are charged with felony abduction and misdemeanor counts of assault and unlawful restraint.

        Enquirer reporter Jane Prendergast contributed.

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