A former East Saint Louis police officer lost his bid to have his 30-month federal prison sentence overturned, according to the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton.  42-year old Ramon T. Carpenter was convicted of two federal charges for making false statements to federal law enforcement officers during their investigation of a civil rights complaint.  Carpenter was prosecuted for false statement crimes but was sentenced according to the law applicable to civil rights violations.   Carpenter appealed his January 31, 2013, sentence, because it was far in excess of the sentence called for by the United States Sentence Guidelines.  The applicable sentencing guideline suggested that the district court should have imposed between 6 to 12 months imprisonment.  However, the United States Attorney’s Office sought and obtained a more severe sentence because of Carpenter’s egregious conduct.  Evidence in the case established that in the early morning hours of May 8, 2012, that a female motorist was driving in East Saint Louis, when she encountered East Saint Louis police officers Ramon Carpenter and Chris Parks.  The driver was intoxicated and driving with open liquor at the time.  The driver believed that she would be arrested by the officers for driving with no license, no insurance and DUI.  Instead of being arrested, the female alleged that she was driven to a secluded area in Jones Park, where she felt that she had to perform oral sex on the officer to avoid going to jail.  When Carpenter was interviewed by federal agents he falsely denied being present in Jones Park during his shift and he also falsely denied receiving oral sex.  An FBI investigation conclusively established that Carpenter had lied when agents located discarded napkins containing Carpenter’s semen.  Carpenter was fired from the East St. Louis police department on July 10, 2012, and was indicted by the federal grand jury on July 17, 2012.