This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories

A body cam catches an LAPD cop planting a bag of cocaine on a suspect, a Philadelphia cop gets nailed in a multi-cop drug dealing conspiracy, a Houston cop gets nailed for not turning in seized cocaine, and more. Let's get to it:

In Los Angeles, an LAPD officer was suspended last Thursday for allegedly planting a bag of cocaine in the wallet of a man he was arresting. Officer Samuel Lee was betrayed by his own body camera, which appeared to show him putting the cocaine in the man's wallet. Lee has been taken off field duty while the incident is investigated, and the LAPD has since updated in body camera policy so the cameras record up to two minutes of activity that occurs before the officer turns them on, instead of the 30 seconds under the old policy.

In Houston, a Houston police officer was arrested last Thursday for stealing drugs during traffic stops. Officer Julissa Guzman Diaz, 37, went down in a sting where an undercover officer got himself pulled over for swerving on the highway and told her he had kilos of cocaine in his car. Diaz arrested the driver for DWI, but did not turn in the cocaine, instead calling a wrecker driver to tow the car and offering him a share of the coke. She is charged with felony tampering and fabricating evidence, and is out on $100,000 bail.

In Philadelphia, a Philadelphia police officer was arrested Tuesday for supposedly masterminding a plot to sell seized drugs on the street. Officer Eric Snell went down after coming up with the scheme in the wake of a car chase and the seizure of ounces of cocaine. Rather than turn them in, he allegedly conspired with a group of other officers to sell the stuff on the street. One of the officers had been arrested earlier, and Snell implicated himself in the plot in phone calls to that officer while he was in jail. He faces charges of racketeering conspiracy and drug trafficking.

In Nashville, a Metro-Nashville police narcotics officer was arrested Wednesday for allegedly stealing more than $5,000. Sgt. James Dunaway went down in a sting where police placed $28,000 and four pounds of marijuana in motel room. Dunaway was seen on surveillance video taking money from different locations within the room. A total of $5,860 was taken. Dunaway is charged with felony theft.

In Mountain City, Tennessee, a Mountain City police officer pleaded guilty Tuesday to drug and guns crimes. Officer Ronald Shupe, 44, bought oxycodone from an undercover informant and was then arrested by Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, FBI, and Tennessee Highway Patrol agents. He was armed and in uniform. He pleaded guilty to possessing oxycodone with intent to distribute and carrying a gun during a drug trafficking offense.