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Newsbrief:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cop
Story
10/10/03
While the Sarasota Police
Department's legal institutional corruption is rewarded with trips to Orlando
and Las Vegas, a Warren County, Virginia, sheriff's deputy's much more
mundane but illegal corruption got him 40 months in federal prison. On
September 30, now former deputy Kevin Glin Kinsey got himself sent up the
river by a federal judge for using his position as a county jail supervisor
as a crack cocaine franchise.
US District Judge James handed
down five 40-month sentences, one for each count of cocaine trafficking
for which Kinsey was convicted, but those terms will run concurrently.
The 23-year-old Kinsey will be a free man again by 2007.
Kinsey, a first-year officer,
came under suspicion from fellow employees in 2002, and the Warren County
Sheriff's office asked the FBI to investigate later that year. The FBI
found that Kinsey sold crack during his shift supervising work-releases
prisoners, accepted drugs from them for his own use, and falsified drug
test results for inmates. That probe led to his indictment in February.
He was fired at that time.
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Issue #306, 10/10/03
Editorial: Summer's Over -- Long Live Summer |
Curtain Closes on Ontario's Summer of Legalization: Court Ruling Reinstates Possession Law, Loosens Medical Marijuana Rules |
Change the Climate Ad Campaign Riles DC Pundits, Politicos |
California in the Era of Arnold |
New England "Governors' Summit" on Drugs: Drug War Horse and Pony Show Inside, Protestors Outside |
This Week in History |
Urgent Action Appeal on Singapore Drug Case from Amnesty International |
Newsbrief: In Fall Term, Supreme Court Rejects South Carolina Crack Mom Appeal, Accepts Case on Ex-Drug User's Rights Under Americans With Disabilities Act |
Newsbrief: Georgia Supreme Court Throws Out Driver Drug Test Law |
Newsbrief: Walters Lies Pile Up in Canada Diatribe |
Canadian Prime Minister Talks About Toking Up |
Newsbrief: Sarasota Police Lure Would-Be Drug Dealers for Profit |
Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cop Story |
Newsbrief: Pentagon Adds Drugs to List of Foes in Afghanistan |
Newsbrief: Vacation in Bermuda? Anti-Marijuana Campaign Underway |
DRCNet Temporarily Suspending Our Web-Based Write-to-Congress Service Due to Funding Shortfalls -- Your Help Can Bring It Back -- Keep Contacting Congress in the Meantime |
Perry Fund Accepting Applications for 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 School Years, Providing Scholarships for Students Losing Aid Because of Drug Convictions |
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