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Law
Enforcement:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
12/2/05
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/413/thisweek1.shtml
America's prisons must be
a real captive market for wannabe drug dealers -- this week yet another
prison guard goes down. And then there's the case of the bad cop
turned bad kiddie van driver. Let's get to it:
In Eddyville, Kentucky, prison
guard Charles McGregor, 29, was arrested November 22 on charges of first-degree
promoting contraband and bribery of a public servant after being caught
trying to smuggle five ounces of weed into the Kentucky State Penitentiary
in his shoes, the Associated Press reported. McGregor had been under
investigation by internal affairs officers, and they searched him as he
arrived at work after they observed him receiving a package from an inmate's
family member. He faces a second contraband charge after police found
a handgun in his vehicle on prison property after his arrest -- a no-no.
He was booked into the Caldwell County jail.
In Santa Fe, New Mexico,
a former Gallup police officer who spent eight years in prison after shooting
his wife in 1992 has found more trouble in his new career. According
to KOB-TV4, Thomas Mayes was arrested Monday for transporting 60 grams
of cocaine along with the four children he was carrying in his job as a
van driver for the Santa Fe Boys and Girls Club. Police turned up
another 60 grams of coke and a stolen handgun when they searched his apartment.
He is charged with cocaine distribution and being a felon in possession
of a handgun. And while Santa Fe police told KOB-TV4 there was no
evidence Mayes was giving coke to the kiddies, he has also been charged
with four counts of child abuse.
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Issue #413
-- 12/2/05
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Financial
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Plot
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Law
Enforcement:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
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Law
Enforcement:
California
Drug
Task
Force
Must
Hold
Public
Meetings,
Court
Rules
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Asia:
Singapore
Executes
Australian
for
Drug
Smuggling
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Marijuana:
Marijuana
Crop
Worth
$1.5
Billion
in
One
California
County
Alone,
Paper
Estimates
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Silliness:
Two
Florida
Grade
School
Girls
Arrested
for
Fake
Marijuana
Prank
|
Europe:
England
to
Drug
Test
Arrested
Burglars
and
Muggers
|
Latin
America:
Mexico
Allows
State,
Local
Cops
to
Join
Drug
War
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