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Newsbrief:
New
Indictments
in
Dallas
Sheetrock
Scandal
10/1/04
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/356/sheetrock.shtml
Three Texas police officers
were re-indicted Tuesday in the Dallas sheetrock scandal, where Dallas
police arrested, prosecutors convicted, and judges sentenced dozens of
people, mostly immigrants, to prison on drug charges when the alleged drugs
turned out to be nothing more than ground up sheetrock.
According to the Associated
Press, officer Mark Delapaz is charged in the indictment with lying about
performing field drug tests. The indictment alleges Delapaz never
tested an eight-pound methamphetamine seizure and falsely reported he had.
The meth was sheetrock. Another former Dallas police officer, Jeffrey
Haywood, is charged with twice lying about performing field tests in two
large cocaine busts in May 2001. It also turned out to be sheetrock.
Since the sheetrock scandal
first broke in January 2002, Dallas county authorities have thrown out
more than 80 felony drug cases. So far three former officers and
five former snitches face indictments. Delapaz, the gung-ho drug
fighter at the center of the scandal, has been indicted on 11 felony counts
and faces a November 14 trial date.
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Issue #356, 10/1/04
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