It's not clear what happened from this news report. His error in judgement may have been he hadn't investigated the problem sufficiently. Then falsely testifie

It's not clear what happened from this news report. His error in judgement may have been he hadn't investigated the problem sufficiently. Then falsely testified to the government. That's a big deal on its own. The officer involved might have been fired or reprimanded, we don't know from that article.