More details are emerging about the fourth member of the Gary Police Department charged with a crime in two months.

Gary police Officer Robert L. Irving, 35, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges he slammed a suspect's head into a door at a hospital and later pulled the suspect's hair out in a police booking room while on duty Sept. 11, 2005, according to court records made public Tuesday in Hammond federal court.

Irving also faces a third charge of falsifying a police report to cover up the alleged abuse of the suspect, who is identified in the indictment only by the initials "E. J."

Each count carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. The case is being prosecuted by the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Gary police Cmdr. Sam Roberts said the department does not condone such behavior, although he added Irving -- who has resigned from the force -- is entitled to a presumption of innocence unless proven otherwise.

"By no means do we encourage officers to injure a suspect," Roberts said. "Definitely pulling of hair is not tolerated by the Gary Police Department."

Irving is the same officer who received $30,000 in a legal settlement from the Lake County Sheriff's Department in 2006 after officers mistakenly broke into his home and assaulted his brothers during a botched drug raid in 2001 -- just two years after Irving joined the Gary police force.

In the lawsuit, Irving said unidentified county police officers attempted to cover up the incident by threatening that police officials could retaliate against him if he ever mistakenly shot someone.

Irving was the fourth member of the Gary department to be charged with a crime in two months when he was indicted Nov. 26.

Reserve officers Parnell Jordan and Kenneth Moore were federally charged Nov. 8 and Oct. 3, respectively, with collecting security paychecks from a publicly subsidized housing complex for hours they did not work.

Terry Smith, inspector of the Gary police reserve force, was charged in October in state court with intimidating another officer.

All of the cases are pending.