FORMER FLORIDA SHERIFF DEPUTY CAUGHT PLANTING DRUGS ON AT LEAST 10 INNOCENT PEOPLE
Source: Newsweek
BY CHRISTINA ZHAO ON 7/11/19 AT 8:03 PM EDT
A former sheriff's deputy was arrested in Florida this week after a yearlong investigation determined he had planted drugs on at least 10 innocent people after pulling them over at traffic stops.
Until last fall, Zachary Wester, 26, had been employed as a deputy in Jackson County on Florida's panhandle, about an hour west of Tallahassee. He was apprehended Wednesday in Crawfordville, Florida, on 52 counts of felony charges including racketeering, official misconduct, fabricating evidence, possession of a controlled substance and false imprisonment, according to the state's Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE).
He was also charged with misdemeanor perjury, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Wester's arrest came after the FDLE conducted an investigation, starting last August, into allegations he had covertly planted methamphetamine and other illicit substances in innocent drivers' vehicles after pulling them over to conduct a search. Wester, who joined the department in 2016, was reportedly terminated from his job in September.
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/former-florida-sheriff-deputy-caught-planting-drugs-least-10-innocent-people-1448860?piano_t=1
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Yeehah
(4,524 posts)There are a few good cops but most are low-life criminals.
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gopiscrap
(23,674 posts)almost all of them are like that!!!
Scalded Nun
(1,231 posts)He doesn't
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)I feel bad for all the decent cops out there - and there ARE decent cops out there - but people, you have GOT to start policing your own. Forget that Blue Line shit.
Applegate
(96 posts)LittleGirl
(8,261 posts)safeinOhio
(32,531 posts)should triple the penalty.
Police need to be held to a higher standard than any one else.
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)Sapient Donkey
(1,568 posts)oasis
(49,151 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)and fired! No paid leave? He should have killed someone, he'd be better off. Must have planted the dope on the wrong people.
Doitnow
(1,103 posts)drug enforcement obviously.
Sapient Donkey
(1,568 posts)I am curious how/if he tried to justify his actions.
Sapient Donkey
(1,568 posts)ROB-ROX
(767 posts)The south is rotten with cheating, lying, stealing law enforcement people. One rotten apple in the barrel makes the whole barrel ROTTEN. I think it is true that those in government would try to damage her job, promotes, pay raise, because they like criminal cops. I pray she is given millions because of the damage done to her outstanding service to the public by corrupt government employees.......CHEERS