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Bikerfool
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Sheriff cuts ties with MDEA
#8068436 - 02/25/08 12:37 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Sheriff cuts ties with MDEA By Bill Trotter Monday, February 25, 2008 - Bangor Daily News
MACHIAS - Sheriff Donnie Smith of the Washington County Sheriff’s Department has ordered his staff members not to work with the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency until further notice.
Smith made the order in a memorandum that was sent out Friday to his department’s patrol deputies and other law enforcement officers.
"Until further notice all operations with Maine Drug Enforcement Agency are suspended," the memo reads. "No personnel from the Washington County Sheriff’s Office will participate in any operation involving Maine Drug Enforcement."
On Sunday, Smith said a DVD he recently acquired that shows an MDEA agent engaged in "disturbing" behavior is the reason behind his decision. He declined to identify the agent.
"The entire agency’s credibility is in question until this is cleared up," Smith said Sunday during a phone interview with the Bangor Daily News. "The whole thing is inappropriate. It’s very damaging, I think."
Smith said the video is about two hours long and is believed to have been recorded in the summer of 2006. It shows an MDEA agent, in an apparent attempt at humor, flashing his badge, drinking a beer and then driving off in a car.
It also shows the agent and others discharging weapons and engaged in activity Smith called "indecent exposure." One of the other people in the two-year-old video is a man who recently was convicted and sentenced for possession of child pornography, the sheriff said.
Smith said that if the agent was intoxicated when he was firing weapons, he could be charged with reckless conduct.
"I think it needs to be investigated," he said. "There should have been criminal charges."
He also said MDEA officials have known about the video but have done nothing about it.
In an e-mail sent with Smith’s memorandum, Lt. David Denbow makes it clear to deputies that the department will not shirk its responsibilities.
"This does not mean that we will not work drug cases when we have information to act upon," Denbow wrote of Smith’s order. "Any that you develop that requires action should be treated as any other criminal information and be investigated as such within the limits of your abilities."
Stephen McCausland, spokesman for Maine Department of Public Safety, said Sunday that Smith made Commissioner Anne Jordan aware of the DVD late last week. State police took a copy of the DVD to the Attorney General’s Office in Augusta, he said.
"We’ll review it," McCausland said.
McCausland stressed that Smith’s action would not affect MDEA investigations.
"We will continue to pursue illegal drug activity in Washington County," he said. "We are hopeful that this will be resolved quickly."
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Re: Sheriff cuts ties with MDEA [Re: Bikerfool]
#8068770 - 02/25/08 02:40 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Good. Fuck the DEA and all of it's chapters.
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Re: Sheriff cuts ties with MDEA [Re: Bikerfool]
#8069246 - 02/25/08 05:04 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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MDEA
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Re: Sheriff cuts ties with MDEA [Re: Humble lurker]
#8071208 - 02/26/08 01:58 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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The dudes honest at least. I have nothing against cops/feds in general. I don't agree with all the laws but without enforcement we'd all be fucked. If someone is trying to make a difference from the inside out than all the power to em. There are good cops, and bad cops, just like every other circle of society. I ain't sure about the ratio of good/bad, but laws are the same way. I've had encounters with the some cool police, who are doing they're job, and I've had encounters with complete assholes who get a kick outa fucking with peeps. All in all, authority is easy to abuse, and perhaps Law enforcement offices should employ very strict personality tests before they hire some freaks. Unfortunately That is not the case, So there will always be the good and the bad. This psychobabble shit varies from city to city- country to country but it's true. I have to respect the ones who actually try to make the world better- the rest of em can eat my shit.
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Re: Sheriff cuts ties with MDEA [Re: RaMboZo]
#8082410 - 02/28/08 05:15 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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This was actually blown WAY out of proportion. The only thing the DEA agent did wrong in the film was flash his badge, and that was just a bad judgement call, which he has already been punished for. He didnt drive drunk, that is a trick of the video, yes we fired off weapons, so what, who doesnt in maine, the only difference is that we WERENT drunk. lol. Indecent exposure lol, if thats what you call somone (not the dea agent) mooning the camera...so be it. This whole dvd is just of friends and some random people having fun partying and shit. In fact, this DEA agent is my cousin, and im and avid pot head, they mainly focus on prescription drug abuses here, and not users, but dealers. Obviously i dont hang around him when i am high, because i respect that its his job. Everybody has to pay their bills somehow.
oh, me and a friend of mine filmed and edited the dvd, and he created the DVD itself, if you were wondering why i know so much. Also the dvd was filmed in 2005, not 2006, and the state attorney general just ruled that there is nothing criminal on the tape, just people acting juvenile lol. And the sheriff has already eaten his words for being a douche.
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