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Newsbrief:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Story
2/13/04
A dishonorable mention goes
to two suburban St. Louis cops, Patrick Redenbaugh and Jonathan Terris
of the Bel-Ridge, Missouri, police department. They were arrested
last week trying to buy an eightball worth of cocaine and now face charges
of possession and attempted possession of a controlled substance.
But this week's winner is
former Washington County, NC, Sheriff's Office investigator James Edward
Leonard, 55. Leonard pleaded guilty in federal court February 3 to
conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute more
than 500 grams of cocaine.
According to court documents,
in the summer of 2003 Leonard set up a deal to buy two kilos of cocaine.
Unfortunately for him, his seller was a snitch, and he was arrested shortly
after making the buy. Leonard also accepted $1,500 from the same
informant as payment for providing information that could shield drug shipments
from police.
He now faces a five-year
mandatory minimum sentence, a maximum of 40 years, and a possible $2 million
fine. He remains in custody pending a June 7 sentencing date at the
federal courthouse in Greenville.
Leonard's former boss, Washington
County Sheriff Stanley James, pronounced himself shocked. "He did
not give me any suspicion that anything like this was going on," the sheriff
said Tuesday. "It was totally, totally shocking and surprising.
He was a hard, hard worker," James said.
Yeah, a real overachiever.
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Issue #324, 2/13/04
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