LIVE | Day 4 in trial of former Jackson County deputy Zach Wester
Posted at 10:36 AM, May 13, 2021
and last updated 2021-05-13 13:59:27-04
JACKSON COUNTY, Fla. (WTXL) â Zach Wester, the former Jackson County Deputy fired for planting evidence during traffic stops, faces his third day on trial with witness testimony from those charged and backup officers.
Maria Thompson is the She was pulled over by Wester in 2017 because he said he smelt marijuana.
âI told him there was no way, said Thompson. That I had not been smoking marijuana. The only thing I had been smoking was a cigarette.â
Thompson told Wester during the stop that she was on drug probation. She says he then detained her and put her in the back of his patrol car. He then began searching her car.
Eight of Wester’s alleged victims testified on Monday and Tuesday, and several more took the stand Wednesday, including a woman who said cigarettes and Dr Pepper were her only vices when she was arrested on a meth charge.
Kimberly Hazelwood testified that she and her husband, Jeremy Hazelwood, and their young children had just moved to Marianna when Wester pulled over their white van in June 2018. Wester searched the van after another deputy’s K-9 unit signaled around the front passenger seat and found an Excedrin bottle with meth inside.
Prosecutors played Wester’s body camera footage of the stop, including an emotional Hazelwood trying to explain that they didn’t have any drugs in the van.
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