A former Des Moines police officer who was criminally charged Tuesday is suspected of taking methamphetamine from one arrested suspect and planting it on another, according to court records.

Tyson Teut, 30, of Johnston, who resigned from the Des Moines Police Department in December, was arrested Tuesday and charged with felonious misconduct in office and perjury, both class D felonies.

When Teut and another officer, Joshua Judge, resigned in December, police department officials publicly announced allegations against the two officers, who were suspected of planting drug evidence in a January 2015 case. Both were senior police officers assigned to patrol.

Criminal complaints filed in court against Teut revealed that he is suspected of taking methamphetamine from one suspect and documenting it as evidence for another suspect.

On Jan. 1, 2015, Teut and Judge arrested Kyle Jacob Weldon, 23, on outstanding warrants out of Marion and Monroe counties for theft and probation violation.

"A small container with residue suspected of being methamphetamine was found on (Weldon)," but "the amount of residue in the container was likely not enough to ... positively identify the substance," according to the criminal complaints.

"During the same work shift, Officer Teut arrested another subject after the subject had thrown a container of methamphetamine out of a vehicle. Officer Teut later placed an amount of methamphetamine from the second incident into the container of the subject arrested in the first incident (Weldon)," according to the complaints.

Weldon was charged with possession of methamphetamine, and Teut wrote a now-discredited criminal complaint supporting that charge. The complaint alleged that Weldon had a container of meth in his front pants pocket.

The charge was dismissed in January after the allegations against Teut and Judge surfaced.

Though Teut was charged on Tuesday, Judge was not. Polk County Attorney John Sarcone would not comment on the status of the allegations against Judge.

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No other officers were accused of wrongdoing amid the allegations against Teut and Judge.

Teut posted $10,000 bond and was released from Polk County Jail by Tuesday afternoon, records show.

After Weldon's drug charge was dismissed, he filed a civil lawsuit regarding this case. That lawsuit is pending.

Upon announcing Teut's and Judge's resignations in December, Des Moines police officials said they believed that the two officers planted drug evidence in just one case. But the department planned to internally investigate all of both officers' work, going back to August 2013, when they both joined the department. This included hundreds of cases.

Des Moines-area attorneys unaffiliated with this case have said the accusations against Teut and Judge could impact the credibility of the police department, as defense lawyers would likely re-evaluate cases that involved Teut and Judge.

Des Moines police spokesman Sgt. Paul Parizek declined to comment on Teut's arrest on Tuesday.

At the time of the officers' resignations, Parizek said their alleged actions were a disappointing outlier and not representative of the department as a whole.