Law
Enforcement:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
8/4/06
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/447/police_drug_corruption.shtml
Another sheriff who couldn't resist temptation, another drug-dealing cop, and something smells mighty bad in a Mississippi anti-drug task force. Just another week in the drug war. Let's get to it:
In Adel, Iowa, the Dallas County sheriff was charged July 28 with stealing $120,000 in seized drug money. According to WHO-TV in nearby Des Moines, Sheriff Brian Gilbert is accused of pilfering one packet of cash in a $900,000 seizure. Gilbert took the cash from the scene and reportedly detoured to his home on the way to the station. When he got there, Deputy Scott Faiferlick noticed one of the packets was missing and told investigators. Sheriff Gilbert maintains his innocence, but now faces charges of first degree theft.
In Henrico, Virginia, a former city police officer is on the lam after police went public with two arrest warrants for him Monday. Former Officer Charles Harpster faces charges of obtaining drugs by fraud and marijuana distribution, Henrico police told WRIC-TV8 in Richmond. Police have released little other information, except to neither confirm nor deny allegations he took drugs from the police evidence room.
In Ellisville, Mississippi, prosecutors have dismissed at least three dozen drug cases because of an ongoing investigation into "questionable activities" by the Southeast Mississippi Drug Task force, according to a July 26 report by WDAM-TV7 in Hattiesburg. Jones County Assistant District Attorney Ronald Parrish told the station a number of other cases will not be presented to a grand jury. No specifics of the alleged police wrongdoing have been made public, but it must be pretty serious if prosecutors are already dismissing cases.
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Issue #447
-- 8/4/06
Editorial:
Sometimes
They
Tell
the
Truth
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Feature:
British
Parliamentary
Committee
Slams
Drug
Classification
Scheme,
Calls
for
Evidence-Based
System
|
Feature:
As
Fighting
Flares
in
Southern
Afghanistan,
Support
for
Licensed
Opium
Production
Grows
|
In
Memoriam:
Methadone
Pioneer
Vincent
P.
Dole
|
Announcement:
Sick
Editor
=
Short
Issue
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Law
Enforcement:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
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Harm
Reduction:
Drug
Czar's
Office
Opposes
Letting
Heroin
Users
Have
Easy
Access
to
Overdose
Antidote
|
Marijuana:
Seattle
Hempfest
Sues
City,
Art
Museum
Over
Permitting,
Access
|
Latin
America:
New
Report
Says
Colombian
Cocaine
Production
Seriously
Underestimated
|
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Scan
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