Weekly:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
5/6/05
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/385/thisweek1.shtml
It's another full plate this
week, with cops ripping off drug buyers, getting kinky on stolen cocaine,
and trying to frame citizens. Let's get to it:
In Lumberton, Alabama, former
police officer Leon Oxendine, 51, was sentenced to more than four years
in prison Monday for planting evidence designed to implicate a man he suspected
was selling cocaine and ecstasy. He pled guilty in September 2004
to witness tampering, making false statements to the FBI, and five counts
of lying to a federal grand jury. According to testimony, Oxendine
had an informant plant a computer disk containing the image of a $100 bill
inside a Lumberton home in a crooked effort to nail the alleged offender.
In Dedham, Massachusetts,
former state police Sgt. Timothy White is on trial on charges of stealing
27 pounds of cocaine, as well as marijuana and ecstasy. According
to the Boston Herald, the proceedings promise prurience galore. White
was supposed to destroy seized drugs for the state, but instead he is alleged
to have stolen them, sold them, and partied so hardy with them that he
ended up threatening to kill himself and/or his wife during a final, disastrous
coke binge. Before that, prosecutors alleged that White, his wife,
and fellow partiers engaged in coke-fueled kinky sex, partner-swapping,
and bisexuality. His trial continues this week.
In Buffalo, New York, police
officer Russell Funderburk, 39, is accused of participating in a $14,000
drug rip-off while on-duty, in uniform, and driving his marked police vehicle.
Prosecutors allege that Funderburk and his brother-in-law, an accused cocaine
trafficker, engineered a fake traffic stop bust. Funderburk's in-law,
Frederick Nolley, arranged to meet with a customer for a drug buy, only
to have Funderburk pull the customer over and "seize" the money, prosecutors
said. Funderburk has been on suspension since he and Nolley were
arrested along with 40 others in a DEA bust. He was originally charged
with helping Nolley sell drugs by giving him tips to avoid detection.
He was indicted April 28 on new felony drug conspiracy charges for the
drug money rip-off.
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Issue #385
-- 5/6/05
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