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Newsbrief:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cop
Stories
2/18/05
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It's been a relatively slow
week by recent standards. We have only three cases worthy of a mention
in this feature, two of them unresolved:
In yet another case of a
prison worker gone bad, a food service employee of the Texas Department
of Criminal Justice's Beto Unit prison was arrested February 10 on a second-degree
felony bribery charge. Justin Griffin, 29, was arrested by the Dogwood
Trails Narcotics Task Force on charges of taking bribes from inmates in
exchange for contraband tobacco and illicit drugs. He is out on $15,000
bond while awaiting trial, the Tyler Morning Telegraph reported.
Thing are a little more serious
in small town Cloverport, Kentucky. According to Louisville TV station
WLKY NewsChannel 32, both officers in the tiny town's two-man police department
were forced to resign in January after property seized in a drug case disappeared.
Former Police Chief Rob Vanderhoef is under investigation by the Kentucky
State Police, but the other fired policeman, Officer David Pace, committed
suicide on February 9. Pace killed himself by eating more than 200 prescription
pills, the county coroner reported. Don't look for any quick answers; the
State Police are warning that "it's going to be a complex, lengthy investigation.
Right now, there are some allegations of maybe some funds missing and some
misused property."
Meanwhile, in Iowa, a former
Waterloo police officer has been sentenced to life in prison on drug dealing
charges. Eddie Louis Denton, 70, was sentenced in US District Court in
Cedar Rapids Monday after being convicted of conspiracy to sell crack cocaine,
powder cocaine, and marijuana, the Associated Press reported. That conviction
came in a February 2003 trial. Denton was convicted of helping convicted
drug dealer Herbert Speller move kilograms of cocaine from California to
Waterloo. Denton resigned from the Waterloo Police Department in 1990 amid
bribery allegations. While Denton faced a sentence of from 10 years to
life, Judge Linda Reade hammered him with life because he carried a gun
during some of the drug activity and lied on the stand. Denton's defense
attorney Peter Berger argued to no avail that Denton suffered from a head
injury, making him incompetent to stand trial.
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Issue #375
-- 2/18/05
Souder
Circus:
Committee
Head
Attacks
Harm
Reduction
and
Its
Advocates
in
Hearing,
Hints
at
International
Funding
Crackdown
--
Reformers
Make
Strong
Showing
During
Circus-Like
Proceeding
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Bush
Drug
Budget
Places
Drug
Czar
in
Hot
Seat
Before
Congress
|
Illinois
Medical
Marijuana
Bill
Stymied
by
Drug
Czar
Appearance
--
for
Now
|
Baseball
on
Drugs:
Battered
by
Scandal,
the
Major
Leagues
Embrace
Drug
Testing
|
Blogging:
Reuters
Piece
Questions
Validity
of
Mexican
Drug
War
but
Fails
to
Point
out
the
Logical
Conclusion
of
Legalization
|
Newsbrief:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cop
Stories
|
Newsbrief:
Bush
Administration
Appeals
Ruling
Allowing
Religious
Ayahuasca
Use
|
Newsbrief:
California
Medical
Marijuana
Patients
Sue
Schwarzenegger,
Highway
Patrol
Over
Pot
Seizures
|
Newsbrief:
Medical
Marijuana
Bills
DOA
in
Iowa,
South
Dakota
--
Iowa
Supreme
Court
Adds
Insult
to
Injury
|
Newsbrief:
Illinois
Bill
Would
Require
Drug
Tests
for
Teen
Drivers,
Touted
as
Anti-Methamphetamine
Measure
|
Newsbrief:
DEA
Head
Urges
Fatwas
Against
Drugs
in
Pakistan
|
Newsbrief:
New
Research
Suggests
Student
Drug
Use
Surveys
Miss
the
Mark
|
Newsbrief:
Heartland
Hysteria
--
Bag
of
Dirt
Gets
First
Grader
Punished
as
Doper
|
This
Week
in
History
|
SSDP
Seeking
Contacts
in
Maine
for
March
Campaign
|
The
Reformer's
Calendar
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