On Friday, April 30, 2010, at approximately 11:30 am, I witnessed an off duty CBPO purchasing drugs from a known dealer. The incident happened at the McDonalds located on 122 Rockaway Boulevard. I observed a white male wearing a CBP hat, a blue sweater buying drugs from a known drug dealer. The officer out of his black Nissan Altima and approached a red Honda were the known drug dealer ”El Chapo” was sitting inside his vehicle apparently waiting for the officer. They exchange words, while the officer gave money to the drug dealer and the drug dealer gave the officer a small baggie. At first, I was not sure if I knew the officer, but it was clear that he was wearing a CBP hat and his duty weapon. I took note of the officer’s vehicle
Facts: This case consists of Hereford a criminal informant who gets information of narcotic laws to Officer Marsh; a federal narcotic agent with 29 years on the job. Hereford had been feeding Marsh information for close to 6 months and that information was accurate and reliable. In the early days of September 1956, Hereford told Officer Marsh that the defendant James Draper was distributing illegal narcotics throughout Denver. Several days later, Hereford told Marsh that in the days before Draper went to Chicago and set to return with several ounces of heroin. Along with the information given Hereford gave a physical description of Draper, which included his age, weight, race, and clothes that he had
Facts: On October 13, 2005, in Lexington, Kentucky police officers set up a sting operation to catch a well-known drug dealer. They watched as the suspect made a sale of crack cocaine to a person and walked off as if this is a normal thing. The suspect was Mr. Hollis King, and he was hiding out in an apartment complex with some of his friends. The police watched as the suspect at hand made a transaction with someone selling those drugs. The officers then radioed out that the suspect was on the move and moving towards the entryway of an apartment building. The Lexington Police entered the apartment
On March 17, 2016, at 1:41 P.M., officer T. Cramblett CPD#1191 was dispatched to he area of Sharon Woods Blvd. and Brookhurst Ave on a narcotics complaint. Radio was advised by a known caller that a white Chevrolet Malibu, occupied by two white females, was parked on the street and were involved in the sales of narcotics. Officer Cramblett was responding to the area when he observed a white Chevrolet Malibu traveling south bound on Beechcroft Rd. Officer G.Meyer CPD# 2333 had also been dispatched on the run, and was traveling north bound on Beechcroft Rd., when he observed the vehicle ,traveling south bound, and aired with radio that it was occupied by two white females. Officers Cramblett observed the vehicle turn east bound onto E. Dublin Granville Rd then initiated a traffic stop just west of Maple Canyon Ave. Officers Cramblett and Myer approached the vehicle and made contact with both occupants advising them of the nature of the stop and asking for
Case Facts: Roy Caballes was stopped for speeding by an Illinois state trooper Daniel Gillette. During the traffic stop another state trooper Craig Graham of the Illinois State Police Drug Interdiction Team, overheard the stop on the radio and showed up to the scene with a narcotics detection dog. While the first trooper was writing Roy Caballes a warning ticket for speeding the second trooper walked around Roy’s car with the narcotics detection dog. The dog alerted that it had detected narcotics at the rear end of the car which subsequently led to the state troopers searching the trunk of the car. Upon searching the trunk of the car the state troopers found a large quantity of marijuana which consequently led to the arrest of Roy Caballes. The entire incident lasted no longer than 10 minutes. Roy Caballes was convicted of a narcotics offence and was sentenced to 12 years in prison and ordered to pay a $256,136 fine.
Three Detroit police officers from the narcotics division Lt. David Hansberry, Kevlin Omar Brown and Officer Bryan Watson, used their authority as law enforcement to arrange drug deals, pose traffic stops, falsify arrests and extort victims, in order to steal money and drugs that were then sold for profit. Items that were seized from arrest were never logged into evidence violating departmental policy.
The Mexican gun smuggling cartel business started around the year of 2003 (Grillo, par. 2). The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) began to research and investigate the Mexican drug cartels (Detty, pg.3). The ATF started to use a tactic called “gunwalking”. This tactic ran a series of sting operations in order to arrest Mexican drug cartel leaders (Detty, pg.4). The citizens of Mexico were given the
At approximately 1450 hours I texted MENDOZA I was at the Pilot in Madera(22717 Ave 18 1/2, Madera, California 93637). Chavez observed at approximately 1530 hours MENDOZA arrived at his house driving a 2006 black Pontiac GS CA: 6BSW960. After only being inside the residence a few minutes MENDOZA got back into his Pontiac and left his residence driving northbound onto Fairway Dr. and then right onto northbound Westbury Blvd. Agent Forestiere and Agent Gordon conducted a traffic enforcement stop on MENDOZA’s vehicle on Westbury Blvd just north of Cleveland Ave. MENDOZA was subsequently taken into custody and driven back to his residence for the execution of the search warrant. MAGNET and MADNET Agents executed the search warrant at 1488 Penny Way at approximately 1600 hrs. Agents recovered in MENDOZA’S bedroom approximately half an ounce of cocaine in his room along with a scale. No other evidence/narcotics were located either on MENDOZA or inside his vehicle. MENDOZA was booked into the Madera County Jail on 6 counts of 11352(a) H&S(Sales of Narcotics) and one count of 11351(a) H&S(Possession of narcotics with intent to sell) along with one count of 12022.1 PC(Commission of a Felony while on
FACTS OF THE CASE: On April 19, 2002 at around 9pm, three law enforcement officers from the Arizona’s gang task force, was on patrol in a known gang area in Tucson Arizona. They conducted a traffic stop of a vehicle which license plate check revealed the vehicle registration was suspended due to insurance violation. This is consider a civil infraction in the state of Arizona under the law. The vehicle was occupied three times, the driver, the passenger and the back seat passenger Lemon Montrea Johnson, who is the respondent. The police questioned the occupant about gang’s activities, and asked were there any weapon in the vehicle? The occupant replied no, police officer Trevizo’s noticed prior to the stop Johnson who was the back seat passenger continued looking back out the rear view window. Johnson was also wearing a blue bandana which is the Crips gang membership affiliation. At the time of the stop Johnson also had a police scanner inside of his
Tonight I rode with Officer Gausachs again. We were mainly patrolling around College Ave and Cook Douglass. We began by pulling over cars one of which got a ticket for having an expired registration. After that for some reason not entirely sure why but, we just kept seeing cars without their headlights on we pulled over every single one. One of which was a minivan with 8 occupants. When Officer Gausachs approached the car he noticed the smell of pot in the car. When he returned to the vehicle he let dispatch know and the Delta unit came to back him up. After they arrived and obtaining everyone’s ID from in the car Officer Gausaches had every occupant one by one exit the car and he told them the reason for the stop and then explained that he
In 2009, news broke announcing the indictment of five Camden, New Jersey Drug Task Force police officers that operated in South Camden, New Jersey’s deteriorated neighborhoods. Specifically, the officers were alleged to have stolen money and drugs from dealers and used the funds and drugs to pay informants and plant evidence to stiffen charges against suspects. Moreover, these officers falsified police reports, paid for false witness testimony and used some of the stolen cash for personal use. South Camden, NJ has been struggling with criminal activity for years. Consequently, hardworking citizens and police officers entangled in the community have failed to rid the drug problem that has evolved and produced other nondrug-related crime. Community policing has been in effect for several years in this rundown city and police continue to struggle with disappointment. Of the five officers indicted three pled guilty, one was convicted, and the fifth acquitted of all charges (Newall, 2010).
On 1/9/2018, at approximately 1803 hours, In Durango 8 located at 3225 W. Gibson Ln, Phoenix AZ 85009, Inmate Estrada, Gustavo T419228 came to the side of the tower and said, “I don’t want to be house in Durango 8.” I asked him why and he said, “I want to talk to you in private.” I took Inmate Estrada out of the housing unit and he said, “I was assaulted by a couple of Chicanos in between C and D row.” I asked him if he knows who assaulted him and he said “No.” I asked him if he knew why he was assaulted and he said, “No.” I asked Inmate Estrada if he would be willing to aid in prosecution? Inmate Estrada refused to answer my question.
In 1993, EL Chapo was captured and sent to another high maximum security prison in Jalisco, Mexico. Initially, he was placed in a isolated facility until he was able to bribe and threaten the staff to place him with the other inmates. While there, they allowed him to have sex with female prisoners from other institutions, smuggle cocaine through Viagra pills, and treated him like a king (Fusion). Also, he stayed in contact with other extremely powerful drug allies, providing him with money and enforced their power among the guards (Grayson 58). After lawmakers did further investigation on his escape, it has been shown that seventy-one prison officials were receiving regular payments from 'El Chapo' (Morris 254). This continued for eight years (a few days before being extradited to the U.S.) until he decided that it was time for him to escape (Grayson 58). His major influence with his guards, led to them helping hide his body under dirty laundry and smuggling him out of the
Facts: On October 13, 1995, a random caller reported to the local police department (Miami-Dade) that a young African American male was standing a bus stop and according to the caller he was carrying a gun. The call was never recorded and there is nothing known in regards to the caller. After some time two police officers responded, upon arriving at the bus stop the officers noticed three African American males. One of the individuals matched the description giving to police in regards to wearing a plaid shirt, the two officers did not see the gun or any type of “bulging” in his clothing and he did not act hostile towards the officers. Even with that the officers approached
On April 10th, 2015, two Detroit police officers in the city’s Narcotics Division were charged with robbing drug dealers during police searches performed over a four-year period. Due to their wide knowledge of narcotics, they were able to make a large profit by reselling the stolen drugs. They sold the drugs through private parties that included underground operations with other drug dealers in the state. The federal indictment was revealed to be eight-counts which included: possession with intent to distribute five or more kilograms of cocaine, robbery, extortion, possession of firearms and drug trafficking (Cook, 2015).
Over policing in African American communities started during the drug wars and continue to result in over drug arrests of African Americans. Over policing may also occur when police concentrate their efforts not on illegal activity, but on citizens behavior with the hope that in the process of the investigation some evidence of crime may be uncovered. Some police activities such as undercover drug buys are more common in African American communities than other communities and consequently disproportionate numbers of African Americans are arrested for drug dealing (Nunn, 2002). When it comes to violent or non drug crimes there is a clear victim and suspect, and the police can go to the crime scene and investigate. On the other hand when it comes to drug related offences, there isn’t a clear victim and the police can choose when and where to investigate. Police choose to target African American communities because they are easier to target, which results in over drug arrests (Mauer, 199, p.143). The police focus on substances that blacks buy, sell, and places where they would sell them, which results in high drug arrests rates. For example in 2008, the drug arrests of blacks was 3.5 times higher than whites (Tonry, 2011 p. 54). One would wonder if the government and law