|
Bridgeburner
Not spiritual at all.
Registered: 09/16/06
Posts: 20,010
|
Narcotics cop made illegal search look like a break-in [ATLANTA] 1
#8188406 - 03/24/08 06:13 PM (16 years, 8 days ago) |
|
|
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2008/03/24/cop_0325.html
A 23-year Atlanta Police Department veteran pleaded guilty on Monday to conspiring to violate civil rights by searching a private residence without a warrant, federal prosecutors said.
Wilbert Stallings, 44, of Conyers, a sergeant in the department's narcotics unit, faces up to 10 years in prison and up to $250,000 in fines. A sentencing date wasn't immediately set.
After a hearing before federal Judge Julie Carnes, U.S. Attorney David E. Nahmias called the actions of Stallings and his unit a "blatant" rights violation. He also said it was part of a pattern that led to the 2006 botched raid in which 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston was shot and killed in her northwest Atlanta home.
"What we've said is they developed on the team a [pattern] of breaking the rules and bending the rules that ultimately crossed over into the breaking and bending of the Constitution," Nahmias said. "That ultimately is a crime."
The charge against Stallings was an outgrowth of the Johnston investigation, Nahmias said. Stallings supervised the unit in the botched raid but wasn't charged in the case.
Prosecutors said that in October 2005, Stallings led a narcotics team executing a search warrant at an apartment on Dill Road in Atlanta.
Also on the team was Gregg Junnier, one of two narcotics officers who have pleaded guilty to charges in Johnston's death. Junnier had obtained the warrant for one apartment in the 2005 incident, prosecutors said. The team found some marijuana behind the apartment but not inside, they said. Stallings and Junnier then decided to search an adjoining apartment but no one was home and they found nothing inside.
Stallings told the team to leave the apartment and shut the door so it would appear there had been a break-in, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors argued the the incident was part of a pattern of conduct by Stallings and his team, which included misrepresenting unregistered drug informants as registered ones in order to secure warrants.
Stallings and his lawyer declined to comment on the plea.
Nahmias would not rule out the possibility of more prosecutions as the investigation Atlanta narcotic's tactics winds to a close. Federal authorities, he said, plan to produce a report of their findings that will go to Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington.
--------------------
|
TheJakeyl88
RememberInfinity.
Registered: 01/16/04
Posts: 222
Last seen: 15 years, 9 months
|
Re: Narcotics cop made illegal search look like a break-in [ATLANTA] [Re: Bridgeburner] 1
#8189291 - 03/24/08 09:03 PM (16 years, 8 days ago) |
|
|
Well its go to know that there are still a few non corrupt people in the system that won't just turn their heads when it comes to people violating the constitution whether they are part of the "system" or not! Amazing! If only there were more prosecutions like this, then corrupt cops would think twice before pulling shit like this.
|
rawtoxic
Stranger
Registered: 10/06/02
Posts: 2,097
Loc: smokey mountains
Last seen: 13 years, 7 months
|
Re: Narcotics cop made illegal search look like a break-in [ATLANTA] [Re: TheJakeyl88] 1
#8189467 - 03/24/08 09:43 PM (16 years, 8 days ago) |
|
|
imagine a world with all good rule abiding police officers
|
tyler_0_durden
Stranger
Registered: 10/28/07
Posts: 1,861
Last seen: 12 years, 4 months
|
Re: Narcotics cop made illegal search look like a break-in [ATLANTA] [Re: Bridgeburner] 1
#8190603 - 03/25/08 08:20 AM (16 years, 7 days ago) |
|
|
Quote:
b0red5tiff said: http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2008/03/24/cop_0325.html
Quote:
Wilbert Stallings, 44, of Conyers, a sergeant in the department's narcotics unit, faces up to 10 years in prison and up to $250,000 in fines. A sentencing date wasn't immediately set.
Only ten years? Wow...it's cause he's a law enforcement officer that he gets the lax from the judicial system. This guy needs 25 to LIFE.
Quote:
After a hearing before federal Judge Julie Carnes, U.S. Attorney David E. Nahmias called the actions of Stallings and his unit a "blatant" rights violation. He also said it was part of a pattern that led to the 2006 botched raid in which 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston was shot and killed in her northwest Atlanta home.
The people that protect us...?
Quote:
"What we've said is they developed on the team a [pattern] of breaking the rules and bending the rules that ultimately crossed over into the breaking and bending of the Constitution," Nahmias said. "That ultimately is a crime."
Um, duh! HAhaha....Yeah. They blew the lights out on a poor grandma in the name of doing a raid after finding a small, small amount of marijuana. Maybe they should've read up on who was renting that apartment first...instead of y'know, conducting an illegal search and killing someone. That's probably what I would try and do first, if I was going to be a law-abiding police officer.
Quote:
Also on the team was Gregg Junnier, one of two narcotics officers who have pleaded guilty to charges in Johnston's death. Junnier had obtained the warrant for one apartment in the 2005 incident, prosecutors said. The team found some marijuana behind the apartment but not inside, they said. Stallings and Junnier then decided to search an adjoining apartment but no one was home and they found nothing inside.
Epic fail.
-------------------- "As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter." --Max Planck
Edited by tyler_0_durden (03/25/08 08:22 AM)
|
HighHat
Repeat Gold Medal eBay -TiVoist
Registered: 01/24/08
Posts: 303
Loc: Delocated
Last seen: 14 years, 1 month
|
Re: Narcotics cop made illegal search look like a break-in [ATLANTA] [Re: tyler_0_durden] 1
#8190834 - 03/25/08 09:43 AM (16 years, 7 days ago) |
|
|
From what I have experienced, the APD is polarized to extremes when it comes to weed. There are officers who will pass you by with a blunt in your hand (though these are few) and there are officers who will try to get into your pockets for just looking a them with "that guilty look." Its pretty fucked up. Glad to see that at least some of the douchebags with badges are paying for their self-righteous rights violations.
-------------------- Have you ever felt like you were wearing a hat, but you weren't? "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" -Letter from the Pennsylvania Assembly, November 11, 1755 This profile is strictly for role-playing. Any alleged association with illegal activities is purely fictional. Any images depicting illegal activities are photo-shopped or stolen.
|
sherm
sherman
Registered: 10/02/03
Posts: 20,498
Loc: Euthanasia
|
Re: Narcotics cop made illegal search look like a break-in [ATLANTA] [Re: HighHat] 1
#8190997 - 03/25/08 10:38 AM (16 years, 7 days ago) |
|
|
off with his head
-------------------- shroomery. not even once.
|
andrewss
precariously aggrandized
Registered: 08/17/07
Posts: 8,725
Loc: ohio
Last seen: 3 months, 11 days
|
Re: Narcotics cop made illegal search look like a break-in [ATLANTA] [Re: sherm] 1
#8191837 - 03/25/08 02:44 PM (16 years, 7 days ago) |
|
|
Nice to see that some progress is made in recognizing that shit as a violation of rights and that cops will be held responsible for not playing by the rules.
-------------------- Jesus loves you.
|
stew248
Stranger
Registered: 09/28/02
Posts: 1,730
Last seen: 6 years, 9 months
|
Re: Narcotics cop made illegal search look like a break-in [ATLANTA] [Re: Bridgeburner] 1
#8192003 - 03/25/08 03:24 PM (16 years, 7 days ago) |
|
|
Today's pig is tomarrows bacon.
--------------------
|
Bridgeburner
Not spiritual at all.
Registered: 09/16/06
Posts: 20,010
|
Re: Narcotics cop made illegal search look like a break-in [ATLANTA] [Re: stew248] 1
#9859756 - 02/24/09 10:37 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
Former cops in deadly botched raid sentenced
http://www.macon.com/220/story/630154.html
Three former Atlanta police officers who each pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge in connection with the death of an elderly woman during a botched drug raid have been sentenced to federal prison.
Jason R. Smith, Gregg Junnier and Arthur Tesler received sentences ranging from 10 years to five years. Ninety-two-year-old Kathryn Johnston was killed by police gunfire during the 2006 raid. Click here to find out more!
Police used a "no-knock" warrant to enter Johnston's house to look for drugs. But prosecutors say officers found none and tried to cover up the mistake by planting baggies of marijuana.
U.S. District Judge Julie E. Carnes on Tuesday sentenced Smith to 10 years in federal prison.
She sentenced Junnier to six years and Tesler to five years.
--------------------
|
sherm
sherman
Registered: 10/02/03
Posts: 20,498
Loc: Euthanasia
|
Re: Narcotics cop made illegal search look like a break-in [ATLANTA] [Re: Bridgeburner] 1
#9859798 - 02/24/09 10:45 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
good thing they only killed some old bag, and didn't get caught with drugs. Then they would have got in more trouble.
-------------------- shroomery. not even once.
|
Seuss
Error: divide byzero
Registered: 04/27/01
Posts: 23,480
Loc: Caribbean
Last seen: 1 month, 19 days
|
Re: Narcotics cop made illegal search look like a break-in [ATLANTA] [Re: sherm] 1
#9860878 - 02/25/09 04:17 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
|
|
> good thing they only killed some old bag, and didn't get caught with drugs.
Which begs the question, where did the drugs that they planted come from?
-------------------- Just another spore in the wind.
|
|