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Newsbrief:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Story
10/24/03
It isn't the Salton Sea,
location of the speed-drenched Val Kilmer flic of the same name, but Riverside
County, California, is apparently close enough for at least one allegedly
tweaked-out deputy sheriff. Deputy James Reynolds, 32, is facing
a multitude of charges after being arrested in a sting where he was videotaped
stealing six grams of methamphetamine from a crime scene. Investigators
also charged that Reynolds broke into sheriff's lockers and stole speed
that had yet to be placed into evidence.
Along with numerous meth
possession charges, Reynolds also faces charges of being under the influence
while armed, transporting methamphetamine, attempted evidence tampering,
filing a false police report, embezzlement by a public officer, and solicitation
to commit a felony, according to the Riverside County district attorney's
office. Four other deputies, including Reynolds' wife, will not be
charged. They are on administrative leave as an investigation continues
into whether they knew about, but failed to report, Reynolds' alleged misbehavior.
Sheriff Bob Reynolds pronounced
himself "devastated" by the charges. "We take an oath to be a cut
above, and we need to conduct our everyday life as such," Doyle told the
Los Angeles Times.
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