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Weekly:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
9/16/05
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/403/thisweek1.shtml
With only a pair of stories
this week, we go from the small-time to the big-time (and the big house)
as a Colorado deputy gets caught smuggling drugs to prisoners and a New
Jersey State Police veteran is indicted as part of a massive drug conspiracy.
Let's get to it:
In Denver, Denver Sheriff's
Department Deputy Solomon Mikael, 34, was arraigned Monday on charges of
smuggling pot and cigarettes to Denver County Jail inmates. The seven-year
veteran officer was arrested last week and remains in jail with a $100,000
bond. Mikael was arrested after a four-month investigation involving
six agencies after allegations that a deputy was smuggling in contraband
for inmates. Hmmm, four months, six agencies, and they net one deputy
smuggling joints?
In Elizabeth, New Jersey,
veteran state trooper Detective Sgt. Moises Hernandez has now been indicted
by Union County authorities on charges he used his access to confidential
motor vehicle information to identify an undercover surveillance car to
an alleged drug dealer. Hernandez first
graced these pages when he was suspended from the force without pay
in June, but now he is in jail on $150,000 bond, formally charged with
second-degree conspiracy, official misconduct, and fourth-degree falsification
of documents in a scheme to assist a drug trafficking operation that allegedly
went through six pounds of heroin a day. In April, 20 other defendants
were arrested in raids in northeastern New Jersey in a four-year-old investigation
involving as many as 220 law enforcement officers. They were indicted
on racketeering and conspiracy charges this week.
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Issue #403
-- 9/16/05
Feature:
Judges
and
Legislators
from
Across
Latin
America
Call
for
Radical
Drug
Law
Reform
|
Feature:
REFORMA
Issues
the
Buenos
Aires
Declaration,
Eyes
2008
Vienna
UN
Session
|
Feature:
Cannabis
Culture
in
Buenos
Aires
--
Alive
and
Smokin',
But
With
One
Eye
Peeled
for
the
Police
|
Europe:
Former
Scottish
High
Court
Judge
Says
Legalize
It
|
Weekly:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
|
Canada:
Liberals
Give
Up
on
Marijuana
Decriminalization
Bill
for
Now
|
Health
Canada
Revisits
Proposal
to
Distribute
Medical
Cannabis
in
Licensed
Pharmacies
|
Latin
America:
In
Continuing
Spat,
US
Decertifies
Venezuela
for
Lack
of
Anti-Drug
Cooperation
|
Web
Scan:
Cato
Pain
Forum,
Slate
on
Rehnquist
and
Placidyl,
Alternet
on
the
Marijuana
War,
NORML
Video
Blog
|
Weekly:
This
Week
in
History
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Weekly:
The
Reformer's
Calendar
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