Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Officer tried in fake-drug cases

Officer tried in fake-drug cases

I hate linking to the Moonie Times but I haven't seen this story out of Dallas anywhere else:

"Two dozen persons, many of them illegal immigrants from Mexico, were arrested and convicted about four years ago in a fake drug operation, one of the most embarrassing moments of Dallas Police Department history. What were said to be cocaine and methamphetamines in well-publicized seizures turned out to be simple pool cue chalk.

Informants, often working off drug charges of their own, were allowed to set up others for arrest. In these cases, narcotics officers were led to fake drugs that had been planted. The main informant in the cases was paid more than $200,000 over several months."

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