Texas Town's Police Dept. Shut Down
Mar 04 6:19 AM US/Eastern

TROUP, Texas


The police chief and a sergeant in this eastern Texas town were arrested on drug and evidence tampering charges and the department shut down.

Police Chief Chester Kennedy was charged Friday with tampering with or fabricating physical evidence. He was released from jail on a $400,000 bond.

Sgt. Mark Turner, last year's chamber of commerce Officer of the Year, was booked into Smith County Jail late Thursday on a misdemeanor delivery of marijuana charge and a third-degree felony charge of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence.

Turner was being held on bonds totaling $500,000.

The department's equipment was seized by officers from other law- enforcement agencies.

Lt. Larry Wiginton of the Smith County Sheriff's Department told the Tyler Morning Telegraph that the arrests followed an eight-week investigation by the FBI, sheriff and the Smith County district attorney after Turner allegedly delivered marijuana.

The police department's three other officers were placed on paid leave.

www.breitbart.com/news/2006/03/04/D8G4NFQ80.html

Another victory on the war on drugs right?

A few more victories like this and we will be doing just fine.

Cops have the best.

Well, it was funny when the Super Troopers did it.

IBTPA

HEE HEE COC occifer of the year. Wonder how much he made for the COC?

did you get this from the BoTS forum?

Quoted: did you get this from the BoTS forum?

I got it from:

www.breitbart.com/news/2006/03/04/D8G4NFQ80.html

Didn't show up on a search.

Quoted: Another victory on the war on drugs right? A few more victories like this and we will be doing just fine.

the mj was misdemeanor, the tampering with evidence was a felony. This is a victory for the War on Evidence Tampering.  Maybe we should apply your WOD approach to  Evidence Teampering problem and just make Evidence Tampering legal

Quoted: Another victory on the war on drugs right? hinking.gif A few more victories like this and we will be doing just fine. hr

So let me get this straight.  You are all for giving crooked police a pass as long as they were just dealing drugs?

Wow talk about missing the fucking point.

If drugs were not illegal this wouldnt have happened.

There is money to be made in the drug trade, lots of it, and some people will do lots of things for money.

Quoted: Wow talk about missing the fucking point. If drugs were not illegal this wouldnt have happened. There is money to be made in the drug trade, lots of it, and some people will do lots of things for money.

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I haven't missed any points.  What you seem to be ignoring is that a bad cop is a bad cop regardless of the offense committed.

Yeah,  I want my local school teachers selling weed too.  

The cop did something illegal. They should be arrested. If they owned some illegals machine guns, I would expect the same treatment. Both should be legal in my mind but unlikly to happen.