This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories

Submitted by Phillip Smith on (Issue #1031)
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A small-town Ohio police chief ODs on drugs he stole from his own department, a veteran Baltimore cop gets nailed for peddling pills, a TSA worker goes down for participating in a cocaine conspiracy, and more. Let's get to it:

[image:1 align:right]In Kirkersville, Ohio, the cause of death for the Kirkersville police chief was announced on Monday. Chief James Hughes Jr., 35, died of "acute fentanyl intoxication" after using drugs he stole from his department's evidence room. Police searching his home found packages of heroin, fentanyl, and LSD strewn about his living around, as well as three syringes, one containing traces of a powerful opioid, and another containing fentanyl.

In Oklahoma City, a now-former Cleveland Police volunteer reserve officer was arrested July 27 after being caught with nearly 160 pounds of marijuana. Terry Browne, 33, was fired immediately after being arrested. He now faces drug trafficking charges.

In Baltimore, a Baltimore police officer was arrested last Wednesday on drug trafficking charges after Baltimore County police officers observed him making a drug deal in a suburban parking lot. Officer Spencer Moore, a 14-year veteran of the department, and another man were detained, and police found three pill bottles containing over a hundred oxycodone pills in Moore's car. He is charged with possession with the intent to distribute a narcotic, possession of a controlled dangerous substance, and obtaining a prescription by fraud. He is being held without bail at the Baltimore County Department of Corrections.

In Baker, Louisiana, a now-former probation officer was convicted last Thursday of taking money to rig a city worker's drug test. Peron McCastle, 56, went down after he was recorded telling the worker the test had come back positive, but he had reported it as negative. He then demanded an unspecified sum of money from the worker. He was convicted of public bribery and is looking at up to five years in state prison.

In Pueblo, Colorado, a now-former state prison guard was sentenced last Wednesday to 60 days in jail for smuggling methamphetamine to a prisoner with whom she was romantically involved. Sarah James, 25, had pleaded guilty last month to a misdemeanor count of possession of contraband. She went down after she was caught coming to work with two packages of meth and a love letter to the inmate in her lunchbox. She admitted to being paid $2,000 on each of three occasions she had smuggled drugs into the jail.

In Charlotte, North Carolina, a former Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in federal prison for participating in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy that introduced large quantities of the drug into North Carolina cities. Jamie Blunder, 50, was convicted of drug trafficking conspiracy and firearms charges. Blunder wasn't accused of trafficking drugs at his airport job, but he did use his TSA position to avoid police detection while traveling.

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Terry Browne has a lengthy arrest record. The chief hired him KNOWING his past and in fact that is probably the experience that got him hired considering that 3/4 of the police force have been let go from other departments in surrounding areas for excessive force violations, torture, civil rights violations, planting evidence, falsifying reports, etc etc. The officers employees at CPD are poorly trained and often do not even know the correct statute to cite for offenses or even what a statute states. Many people who come from a law enforcement family background are sick of the behavior exhibited by this insane ass-clown brotherhood, the tickets are handed out to bicyclists for rolling slowly through a stop sign and then because they can just say your acting suspicious, they can subject you to a strip search. I have video and audio of the violations catching these “officers” (who call themselves the “Green Ninjas”) breaking one mans arm and smiling and giggling like a little girl when he hears the arm snap, and the man being arrested for “public intox.” was not even resisting arrest, in fact he was not even intoxicated by the legal standard and was walking home within a few steps of his yard. He had to be life flighted to a hospital 45 miles away after he was given twice the legal limit of Valium and then Ketamine & all caught On VIDEO. No one, NO ONE, has done anything so far. Trafficking in drugs is the least of their crimes. That guy caught was just the mule. It starts with the Chief. And he only fired the reserve officer after the arrest was made public. Terry B. was seen still driving the police car a few days after he got out of jail, by a witness who took a picture. The chief asked the Arresting dept/Jail to scrub any references to Cleveland PD from Terry’s arrest records. Wow, I guess we hold officers in Pawnee County, Oklahoma (AKA Dumbass National Park) to a MUCH lower standard than we do the public? Sounds legit. We just had a woman die from a gunshot wound in the county jail last month according to the reports she smuggled a 9mm (with a tactical sight and seventeen rounds) into the jail in her “vagina” and she was wearing yoga pants. Of course ruled a suicide, not one person fired for that. And the detox cell she was in is videotaped and under 24/7 surveillance. Where is that video? If she had 17 rounds, that is 17 people who could have died. And that’s way too much firearm & ammo to be shoving up your cooter, and no one has a vagina that big except my ex-sister in law. That is some straight up Houdini-Copperfield voodoo-witchery to be concealing that!
Tue, 09/18/2018 - 6:17am Permalink

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