Audit shows Louisiana police didn't track cell phone at the heart of the Ronald Greene investigation

An annual audit of the Louisiana State Police determined that for at least the past four years the agency ignored state auditors' orders to keep records of its equipment, including appropriately tagging property such as cell phones, according to a state representative who has shared the final version of the report with CNN.

The findings follow allegations that the cell phones of the state police's second ranking member, Lt. Col. Doug Cain, and two other state police officers were erased after the 2019 death of Ronald Greene while he was in police custody.

Cain testified last month before a special state legislative committee investigating Greene's death, saying he could not comment when asked if his cell phone was sanitized in the wake of the incident.