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Newsbrief:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Story
2/6/04
The competition was tough
this week. Dishonorable mentions go Memphis police officer Terrance
King, who was arrested January 22 on a Texas highway with 100 pounds of
marijuana and a kilo of cocaine, and former Buffalo, NY, police officer
William Westbrook, who pled guilty January 21 conspiracy to distribute
crack cocaine and possessing a stolen firearm.
But this week's winner is
former Chicago police detective Jon F. Woodall, who was sentenced to 10
years in federal prison on January 27 for stealing seven kilos of cocaine,
selling part of it, and using some of the rest to frame an innocent man.
As part of a plea agreement, he pled guilty to one count of conspiring
to distribute cocaine.
Woodall admitted in court
that he and two other Chicago detectives, James Benson and Richard Matich,
stole the coke after getting a tip from an informant that it was sitting
in an impounded car. The three cops agreed to sell most of the cocaine,
and plant the rest on a drug suspect. Charges have since been dropped
against that man.
Judge John Darrah, who rejected
an earlier plea with a 9-year sentence, said he accepted the plea deal
"reluctantly" and accused the former detective of acting "solely out of
greed."
Benson cooperated with prosecutors
and got 18 months. Matich awaits sentencing after Darrah rejected
a 7-1/2 year sentence as too lenient.
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Issue #323, 2/6/04
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