An ex-Killeen Police Department officer who was facing up to two years in a state jail recently was sentenced to a term of probation after he was found guilty of a lesser charge.

The defendant, Edgar Omar Diaz-Casillas, 42, was indicted by a Bell County grand jury on March 31, 2021, on a state jail felony charge of official oppression after a woman accused him of sexually harassing her in 2019. The state on Oct. 11, 2024, presented a plea bargain offer to Diaz-Casillas on a Class A misdemeanor charge of official oppression, according to Bell County court records.

On Aug. 21, he pleaded guilty to a lesser, Class B misdemeanor charge of harassment. Judge Paul LePak then found Diaz-Edgar guilty and sentenced him to one year of regular probation. The judge ordered that, as conditions, he ser

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