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Posted on 09/12/2005 8:14:07 PM PDT by Coleus
A veteran New Jersey state trooper has been indicted for allegedly aiding members of a major Union County drug ring, law enforcement officials said Monday.
Detective Sgt. Moises Hernandez, 39, of Union Township, a trooper for 17 years, turned himself in to authorities Monday. He is charged with second-degree conspiracy and official misconduct, as well as a fourth-degree charge of falsifying documents related to the heroin trafficking scheme.
The Union County Prosecutor's Office said Hernandez used confidential motor vehicle information to identify an undercover surveillance car for one of the alleged dealers, then filed a fictitious report to try to cover his actions.
Hernandez has been suspended without pay since June, and is expected to be arraigned within a week, said Robert O'Leary, a spokesman with the Union County Prosecutor's Office.
The trooper was in Union County Jail pending bail of $150,000. Attempts to contact Hernandez and his attorney Thursday were not successful.
Twenty other defendants arrested April 14 during raids on 23 locations in northeastern New Jersey were indicted on racketeering and conspiracy charges, authorities announced Monday.
The ring brought six kilograms (13.2 pounds) of high-grade heroin into the region daily. Drugs were transported from Cali, Colombia, to Newark, Union, Essex and Middlesex counties, Camden and Pittsburgh, Pa., prosecutors said.
The original investigation began in 2001 with a single street source and a Kenilworth detective, eventually growing into a a probe involving 220 federal, state, county and municipal law enforcement officers.
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throw away the key on these fatherless punks
Yet people wonder why FReepers are so finicky about police having probable cause when they want to take a peek in your automobile trunk. This is a really unfortunate story.
~ Blue Jays ~
I wonder if he ever worked in New Orleans.
Heck, I'll lay odds that he's one of them Liberalitarians. ;o)
It appears your village is missing one of it's idiots. Blackbird.
More likely...a Republican.
Why don't you just be honest and admit that you just wanna smoke dope and you don't believe the crap you spew?
Not that they actually miss the critter, mind you...
My posts are honest. Hey, after your right-out-of-the-gate personal attack, isn't it time for you to boast of your superior logic?
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One of the reasons that police officers are not supposed to have "known gang associates." This is frequently ignored, unfortunately, both at the time of hiring and during the officer's career.
Did you know that Ronald Reagan called libertarianism the "heart and soul of conservatism"?
Also, being that this story takes place here in dirty Jerz, in the 1997 gubernatorial election the threee choices were pro abortion Republican Christie Whitman, pro-abortion Democrat Jim McGreevy, and pro-life Libertarian Murray Sabrin. I proudly voted for Sabrin. In your opinion, did I do the right thing?
If that's true (and I'm not contesting it, mind you), then why did Reagan initiate the massive War on Drugs that seems to do nothing but infuriate the Liberalitarians?
Nixon initiated the Federal WoD, although all of his successors R and D including Reagan kept it up.
As far as the election scenario I presented to you, do you think I did the reight thing for voting for the Libertarian as he was the only pro-lifer running?
Everybody makes mistakes; he signed TEFRA, too, if I recall correctly.
Nice strawman argument, though.
Didn't the individual states have anti-drug laws before Nixon. Or was all that just created in the BB house?
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