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This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Story
12/3/04
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/365
/thisweek1.shtml
It was party time in Tennessee
for a trio of Memphis cops, but the party ended this week as the three
appeared in court facing a variety of charges. Memphis police officers
John Vaughan, David Tate, and Billy Scott are all charged with possession
of 150 Ecstasy tablets and 10 kilograms of a substance containing methamphetamine,
according to the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
Vaughan was the good boy
of the bunch. Scott, Tate, and a 21-year-old accomplice, April Veach,
are also charged with conspiring to burglarize the home of professional
wrestler Jerry Lawler. The trio was arrested before they could steal
$200,000 they thought Lawler had hidden in his jukebox.
Scott and Tate are charged
with additional drug violations, and in a move that raises the sleaze-o-meter,
also face charges for driving FBI agents posing as prostitutes to nearby
Tunica, Mississippi, to sell sex to big spenders there.
Vaughan and Scott have pled
not guilty, while Tate, an 18-year-veteran of the force, told the court
this week he was guilty as charged. Vaughan and Scott are out on
bail, while Tate remains behind.
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