Yet another Baltimore cop heads to prison in the Gun Trace Task Force scandal, a small-town Maine cop gets popped peddling pills to a female high school student, and more. Let s get to it:
In Jeffersonville, Georgia, a former Twiggs County sheriff s deputy was arrested February 2 for stealing more than $1,500 in cash being held as evidence in a drug case. William Chip Samuel Stokes, 51, a major in the sheriff s office until he was fired February 1, allegedly made off with money seized in a December traffic stop after it went missing from the evidence room. He is charged with theft and violating his oath of office.
BALTIMORE (AP) A former Baltimore police detective has been sentenced to just over a year in prison on charges he lied to federal agents about a scheme
A former Baltimore Police detective and federal task force officer was sentenced Monday to 14 months in prison for lying to federal agents about stealing and selling cocaine more than a decade ago a revelation that could upend a massive gang case.