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Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories

A Wyoming cop get sentenced for stealing his canine officer father's training dope, a prosecutor in Indiana is in the hot seat over asset forfeiture, and another prison guard gets busted. Let's get to it:

In Tallahassee, Florida, a state prison guard was arrested Monday night for allegedly selling cocaine at a North Florida prison. Florida Department of Corrections guard Keith Alan Black is charged with one count of trafficking cocaine. He was arrested after an investigation that began September 24 and was being held in the Leon County Jail on a $150,000 bond.

In Lyman, Wyoming, a former Gillette police officer and Campbell County jail guard was sentenced October 1 to two to four years in prison for stealing marijuana from his father's police patrol car. Thomas Brent Clark took about one pound of pot that his father, a canine officer for the Uinta County Sheriff's Department, kept in his vehicle for training purposes. He was sentenced to the same amount of prison time last week in Campbell County, but may not actually serve any time behind bars. His sentencing judge has recommended that he be sent to a six-month boot camp rather than the state penitentiary.

In Delaware County, Indiana, asset forfeiture abuses by local prosecutors continue to roil local courts. Circuit court judges have been reviewing old cases and are especially critical of County Prosecutor Mark McKinney, whom one judge labeled "deceitful" in his dealing with the court on drug forfeitures. Judges also rebuked McKinney for using confidential settlement agreements with defendants to obtain property without going through the courts, and one judge is examining past forfeiture cases in his court after learning that a defendant's bank account he had ordered frozen had been emptied. That's part of a pattern with McKinney, who in this case divided the bank account holdings between the Muncie Delaware Drug Task Force, the defendant, and his defense attorney. McKinney must now file a brief explaining why he should not be held personally accountable for the improperly distributed funds.

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Sound Familiar

Didn't this kind of "stuff" happen during alcohol prohibition? Weren't there gangs, and drive by shootings? Corrupt cops everywhere? Abuses of power? Sound familiar? It sure does to me. Didn't they decide that enough was enough? "He who fails to learn from history, is condemned to repeat it"

Not anonymous

Ironman

Have "Ya Ever Been to Gillette...?

In Wyoming even dogs like to get high...

Drugs

All that aint nothing compared to these cops and feds here in billings montana not to forget the porbation officers some body should really look in to these guys millions of dollars gone there dirty dirty dirty

PORTLAND OREGON POLICE CORRUPTION

SGT. CLIFF BACIGALUPI 30878 IS ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT POLICE EVER TO WALK THE FACE OF THIS WORLD. DISHONEST HE EVEN FILES FALSE POLICE REPORTS DATING FROM 2000 TO PRESENT.
EVERY ROOKIE WHO WORKED WITH BACIGALUPI IS NOW ALSO CORRUPT.
SERY 36878 HAS KILLED A MAN WORK WITH BACIGALUPI
HUGHES 45063
CLARK BADGE#unknown
PORTLAND POLICE LIE, CHEAT, STEAL, AND SOME KILL.

MAYBE CHASTMAN 36610 WILL BLOW THE WHISTLE; HE SEEMED TO BE HONEST.

TELL ME YOUR STORY! DO YOU KNOW NAMES OF OTHERS-CHANCES ARE THEY HAVE WORKED WITH SGT. BACIGALUPI

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