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Law
Enforcement:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
2/3/06
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/421/thisweek1.shtml
This week, systemic corruption
in the Topeka drug squad continues to roil local law enforcement, and a
civilian sheriff's office employee in Oakland has more on her mind that
filing reports. Let's get to it:
In Topeka, fallout from corruption
in the police department's "troubled" narcotics unit continued this week.
In September, former Topeka narc Thomas Pfortmiller was sentenced to 16
months in prison for stealing thousands of dollars in drug buy money in
a case that revealed festering corruption in the drug squad. A month
later, Shawnee County District Attorney Robert Hecht reported that drug
squad officers routinely tampered with evidence and falsified records and
demanded that narcs be regularly rotated out of the unit in an effort to
reduce corruption. The police and their union disagreed. This
week, Hecht announced he will no longer use reports from three of the eight
officers in the unit, all of whom had put in more than five years on the
drug squad. That means the cases they developed will not be prosecuted.
In Oakland, a longtime Alameda
County Sheriff's Office civilian employee and her husband, a convicted
drug dealer, were arrested last Friday as major drug dealers after delivering
six pounds of cocaine and six ounces of heroin to an undercover agent.
Edie Nash-Hargrove, 38, and her husband, Darrell, were caught with more
than $1.1 million dollars worth of heroin and cocaine, according to the
Alameda County Drug Task Force. Nash-Hargove is a 17-year veteran
at the sheriff's office, where she has held clerical positions. She
has been placed on administrative leave by Sheriff Charles Plummer.
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Issue #421
-- 2/3/06
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--
Four
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Searches
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Answers
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Feature:
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Sues
Department
of
Education
in
Freedom
of
Information
Act
Dispute
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Feature:
Drug
Policy
Alliance
Issues
First
Congressional
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Policy
Voter
Guide
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Enforcement:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
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Medical
Marijuana:
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Kubby
Jailed
and
Suffering
in
California
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HEA
Reform:
Congress
Passes
Partial
Reform
to
Law
Barring
Financial
Aid
to
Students
with
Drug
Convictions
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Medical
Marijuana:
New
Mexico
Bill
Clears
Senate,
Heads
for
House
as
Clock
Ticks
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Marijuana:
Alaska
Governor's
Bid
to
Recriminalize
Marijuana
Backfires
as
House
Rejects
Combined
"Methijuana"
Bill
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Europe:
Italy
Poised
for
Giant
Step
Backward
on
Drug
Policy
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Latin
America:
Mexico's
Drug
War
Erupts
Bloodily
in
Acapulco
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Scan:
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Paey
on
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Minutes,
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HIV/AIDS
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Network
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