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Newsbrief:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cop
Story
3/28/03
What is it about Texas?
The corrupt cop stories keep oozing out of the Lone Star state like toxic
sludge from a Port Arthur petrochemical plant. In Texas, at least,
the drug war is an equal opportunity corrupter. DRCNet has run numerous
stories on the Tulia scandal and drug task forces run amok, and this feature
has spotlighted crooked Rio Grande Valley police chiefs, the Dallas sheetrock
scandal, larcenous sheriff's deputies, and rentable Customs agents.
Now the rot spreads to those
sun-glassed men of the highway patrol, as former Department of Public Safety
(DPS) veteran trooper and narcotics investigator Johnnie Davis begins serving
a pair of 40-year prison sentences for robbing alleged drug dealers and
keeping their goodies. Davis was arrested in a sting a year ago after
suspicions grew that he was ripping off drug couriers on Texas highways.
In the sting, Davis pulled over and attempted to rob an undercover agent
posing as a courier. He pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery and
possession of more than 400 grams of a controlled substance, and on Monday
District Judge Carol Davies sentenced him to 40 years on each count.
He will not be eligible for parole for 20 years.
"You are an embarrassment
to the pride of the brotherhood of police officers," said Davies after
passing sentence. "Your conduct weakens public confidence in our
entire criminal justice system."
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Issue #280, 3/28/03
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