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Newsbrief:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Story
9/24/04
A US Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) officer in Washington state is in the slammer after
getting
caught coming back from Canada with 535 pounds of the dreaded "BC bud"
in the back of his van, the Seattle Times reported. CBP
Officer Corey Whitfield, 35, whose job it
is to prevent drug smuggling, was stopped at the border at Blaine, Washington, on September 13 while driving a van with BC
plates
into the US.
The eight-year CBP veteran
presented a diplomatic passport when asked for ID, saying, "I'm one of
us,"
and claimed to be carrying an engine back to the US. But when a
suspicious CBP officer looked in the back of the van, he found it
contained not
only the engine but hundreds of pounds of high-dollar marijuana in
plastic bags
stuffed into cabinets, according to charging documents filed in the
case.
Whitfield at first denied
knowing the marijuana was in the van, but then changed his story,
saying he had
been blackmailed by a man he met at a party on the Canadian side of the
border
while moonlighting as a security guard. Whitfield
told agents he was forced into the
smuggling scheme when the man showed him photos of himself in
"compromising
situations involving illegal drugs and a sexual encounter with a female
at the
party" and threatened to send them to his wife.
Whitfield now faces a
minimum five-year federal prison sentence.
Moral of the story: If you're a
married border patrolman who likes toking on fatties and doing the
nasty with
little cuties, make sure the cameras are turned off first.
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Issue #355, 9/24/04
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