Weekly: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
It's a real motley crew this week: a small-town police chief gone bad, cops escorting drug shipments, and, of course, more crooked prison guards.
First, a brief note about this weekly feature and what we are and are not trying to accomplish with it. Our purpose in publishing the corrupt cops stories is to make the points about how vast the problem of police corruption really is, how drug prohibition is a major cause of police corruption, and how much hypocrisy there is in the system.
What we're not doing is "gloating" over cops getting a taste of their own medicine or calling for harsh punishments for them. Some of the police officers mentioned here undoubtedly were unethical people when they took the job. Others either bent to temptations or pressures existing in their individual situations or gradually strayed down the wrong path. How harshly they deserve to be punished is an individual matter. Most of all want to end the drug war so that none of this happens at all.
Now, let's get to it:
In Cabot, Arkansas, the former Lonoke police chief and his wife were sentenced Tuesday for running a criminal organization dealing in drugs and jewelry. Former Chief Jay Campbell had been convicted on 23 counts, including conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine and running a continuing criminal enterprise. His wife, Kelly Campbell, was convicted of 26 counts, including residential burglary and obtaining a controlled substance through theft or fraud. The ex-chief is going down for 40 years, while his wife got a 20-year sentence. Trials are pending for the former mayor and two others in this tale of small-town corruption writ large.
In Hollywood, Florida, two Hollywood police officers pleaded guilty April 25 on heroin trafficking charges. Detective Kevin Companion and Officer Stephen Harrison admitted running a protection racket and using police vehicles to escort heroin shipments for people they thought were traffickers, but who were really undercover FBI agents. According to court documents, they also transported stolen diamonds from New Jersey, protected an illegal card game on a yacht, and trafficked in stolen bearer bonds. The pair face 10 years in federal prison when they are sentenced on July 20. Two other Hollywood police officers involved in the racket, Sgt. Jeffrey Courtney and Detective Thomas Simcox, are expected to plead guilty as well, but no hearing dates have been set in their cases.
In Hartford, Connecticut, the New Haven Police Department's recently-fired head narc was formally indicted on corruption charges on April 25. William White, 63, chief of the New Haven drug squad, narcotics detective Justen Kasperzyk, 34, and three bail bondsmen were arrested a month ago after an eight-month investigation by state and federal authorities. Now, White is charged in the indictment with two counts of theft of government funds and bribery conspiracy after he was videotaped stealing money planted by the FBI in what he thought was a drug dealer's car. Kasperzyk was not mentioned in the indictments. The bail bondsmen were indicted for paying White and other officers bribes of up to $15,000 to track down clients who had become fugitives. They face up to 20 years in prison.
In Clovis, New Mexico, a Curry County jail guard was arrested April 24 for smuggling marijuana and tobacco into the jail. Curry County Adult Center Officer Raul Lopez, 23, told investigators he needed cash when an inmate offered to pay him to bring in the goodies. He now faces three counts of bringing contraband into a place of imprisonment and three counts of distribution of a controlled substance. All the charges are felonies. He has now been fired and is being held on $30,000 bond in neighboring Pecos County. Lopez is the fifth Curry County jail guard to be arrested in the past year, on charges ranging from contraband to assaulting prisoners.
In Rutland, Vermont, a state prison community corrections officer was arrested April 27 for selling cocaine. Sheri Fitzgerald, 43, went down after selling coke to a confidential informant that same day and is accused of selling it to offenders she oversaw in the community corrections program. She faces felony charges of cocaine possession, cocaine distribution, distribution of narcotics, and a misdemeanor count of illegal possession of a narcotic. That could get her up to 19 years in prison. The 18-year veteran of the Vermont Department of Corrections employee is now jailed on a $250,000 bond.
corrupt cops...
Comment posted by Anonymous on Sun, 06/03/2007 - 7:00amI find it degrading to me personally and to to my very humanity that the very people we are supposed to trust, to be able to trust, are criminals themselves. Many years ago, thirty by my memory, I know a story that has stayed with me and always will.
Having been pulled over for a spurious missing trail light, I, the driver of a nondescript vehicle was searched and her car also. Carried in a purse on the seat beside her was a pound of a very restricted substance. The investigating officer called for backup, for some reason, and the driver was taken to city cells in, you guessed it, Vancouver, BC.
When court was called in the am, the charges were possession of an ounce of mj and a cap of heroin for her own use.
There was no mention of the pound.
That saved me, the driver, from a sentence of twenty to life, but there was enough drug to send a lot of kids to any University in the free world and still live very comfortably for the rest of that cops' life and his family's.
I was grateful, of course, and did change my ways; I have always wondered though, did he slide that pound into his shirt before his backup arrived...must have, because I never heard of it again.
And I wonder, always, was that big score enough, or did more drugs go missing before they even hit the evidence room.
And nothing has changed except to get worse.....
Dirty cops in Osceola county florida
Comment posted by Anonymous on Thu, 06/21/2007 - 1:09pmthe kissimmee police department has two dirty cops that I know of personally.
I was beaten with my hand cuffs on and they stole $60.00 dollars off my person and said that there was nothing I could do about it.
its no wonder that we dont trust law enforcement anymore and this is a prime example why.
The FDLE is the largest organized crime outfit in the united states today and we the people need to "check them".
this proves it...
Comment posted by Anonymous on Sat, 05/24/2008 - 11:45amthis only highlights what blacks have been sayin all along...most cops are dirty, and we (and latinos) suffer the most from this"dirt". Drug dealing/murder/crime arent confined to the black/brown comunity but the media would have u believe it is......
Dirty cops in Clay county North carolina.
Comment posted by Anonymous on Mon, 10/08/2007 - 9:09pmYep rural U.S has cops that plant evidence .Why would they do that? To glorify their Positions on War on Drugs. They are not happy with a simple pot arrest , they must plant Meth.
What is going on is a Travisty of justice.They provide false statements, false testiominies put man and his wife against each other. Joe Shook head sheriff has been caught with illegal drugs in the past , when laws were not so Strick. and now he has become head sheriff. He plants evidence I have proof Stop this injustice .please..
They lie, they think they are untochable..
Where is
Justice?
What has happend to the constitution?
Where is the bill of rights.
p.s. Please send a investigation team of FBI, Internal affirs to Clay county
Thank you
God Bless America
dirty cops
Comment posted by Anonymous on Fri, 04/04/2008 - 12:43pmdont think youre alone. Spartanburg police is no dought one of the most corrupt. Only way the can solve a case is for the perp. o walk in and give up. and good luck getting stolen property back. Southside cops suck......
CROOKED COP GETTING AWAY WITH PERJURY
Comment posted by Anonymous on Mon, 12/17/2007 - 7:06pmWHERE CAN I GET A LAWYER TO SUE SUCH A COP? ANY TAKERS EMIL ME @ CCEN48@AOL.COM
Barry Cooper!
Comment posted by Anonymous on Mon, 08/11/2008 - 12:37pmBarry Cooper is making this his mission. He has vowed to sue dirty cops and other leaders.
Contact him here:
Spartanburg County Dirty Cops
Comment posted by Anonymous on Fri, 04/04/2008 - 12:38pmThe County Police is a joke. To me their like politicions. The more they talk the deeper the s--- gets. All they want to do is put people in jail, guilty or not. Spend alot of money on attorneysand let them figure it out. Dont get me wrong,not all cops are jerks but I could name a couple but I shouldnt. Do the job right or DONT GO TO WORK................
DEPUTY GEORGE ALVAREZ
Comment posted by Anonymous on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 7:07amIN AUBURN WA IN MAY OF 2006 I WAS A PASSENGER IN A CAR THAT MY SONS FATHER WAS DRIVING. THE OFFICER ASKED IF HE THE DRIVER WAS STILL COOKING DOPE. I UNDERSTAND THAT DEPUTY ALVAREZ HAD EVERY RIGHT TO SEARCH THE CAR. BUT HE WENT TO FAR WHEN HE SEARCHED THE TRUNK WHICK HE THOUGHT HE HAD ACCESS TO FROM WITHIN. HE DIDNT AND ME SONS FATHER AND I WERE RELEASED AFTER I SIGNED SOME PAPER APPARENTLY FOREFITING THE 900 DOLLARS THE COP TOOK OUT OF MY POCKET. ALVAREZ SAID I WASANT SIGNING AWAY MY RIGHT TO THE MONEY THAT I COULD BRING PROOF OF INCOM DOWN TO THE SHERIFFS OFFICE AND GET MY MONEY BACK. A LOCKED BOX WAS ALSO KEPT BY THIS COP. WHEN I WENT TO THE SHERIFFS OFFICE THREE DAYS LATER THERE WAS NO MONEY OR BOX THAT ALVAREZ HAD TURNED IN. I FILLED COMPLAINTS AGAINST HIM AND AM NOW PAYING FOR IT.
KING COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE COMPLAINT OVERVIEW
Comment posted by Anonymous on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 7:37amAfter filling my complaint with the Internal Investigation Unit, the Ombudsman and the ACLU, I found my family and my friends would all face the wrath of Deputy Alvearez. First he pulled over my sons fathers parents and asked them why there son was talking shit about him. He became angry and asked them to step out of the car and he began searching. He said he found a crack pipe in my sons grandmothers purse and she was arrested and held for 72 hours. This woman has worked her entire adult life. She has never been arrested and does not use any drugs. Regardless, she has a liscence and insurance and the Deputy had no right to search the car. She was never charged for this incident in sept. of 06. On January 27th 2007 I was driving to the Circle K about a block to my house. My rent is due on the first and I have to mail it. I already had a 500 dollar money order at my house. My rent was 1150. Alvarez pulled me over it was about 130 am. He said he heard I filled a complaint against him. I said yes i did because you stole my jewelry. He asked if i knew how much of that shit was hot. I said none of it and i did have recipts for all of it and would have like to prove it in a court of law but now hardly seems like the time or place. At this point the Deputy instructed me to get out of the car. I protested and asked why he even puleed me over. Regardless I had then and have now a liscence and insurance. Deputy Alvarez thretened to take my money and my stuff if I didnt give him information on Jake Weidener or Big Coop or anyone. I remained silent and was taken to jail my vehicle was impounded because it was in the way and Deputy Alvarez arrested my for investigation of VUSCA. I was strip searched at the jail and a small bag of meth was found in my bra which i am being charged with posession with intent. on feb. 26 the day before i was scheduled to appear in court for this charge I was pulled over again by deputy Alvarez. I refused this time to step out of the car unless more officers were present. I was pulled out of the car by my hair. alvarezes buddy who isupposodly a field speacialist in determining if someone is on drugs seeemed to enjoy trying to brake my arm and my screaming was interpreted as resisting arrest.. I am a 30 year old mother of two young boys. I am five foot two inches tall and one hundred twenty pounds. How much more evidence do i need to prove this is a blatant abuse of power, harassment, wittness intimidation and kidnapping. Deputy Alvarez was demoted from detective to deputy when he threated to through a man into the Green River for refusing to turn informant. He was arrested and tried on this case but after the jury was hung the prosecters didnt pursue a new trial. Why doesnt wa state use a video camera with all its officers espeacially ones that have already proven to be a danger to civilians.

















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how cool would that be?!
Comment posted by Anonymous on Sun, 05/06/2007 - 8:02pmprotected an illegal card game on a yacht
must have been some game!