Posted on 07/15/2010 1:39:46 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows
Three Philadelphia police officers have been charged with planning the theft of 300 grams of heroin from an alleged drug supplier and then selling it to another person they believed to be a drug dealer and money launderer who, in actuality, was a DEA special agent.
"I'm personally pissed off about this kind of behavior," Mayor Nutter said at a news conference at police headquarters this afternoon. "We do not employ criminals. That's what they are. That's how they will be treated."
Robert Snyder, 30, of the 25th Police District; Mark Williams, 27, and James Venziale, 32, both of the 39th District, were charged with conspiracy to distribute heroin and related counts, U.S. Attorney Zane Memeger announced today.
Four other people, including Snyder's wife Christal and three reputed drug dealers, were also charged.
Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey said he became aware of the investigation about two months ago. The three officers, he said, had previously been investigated by police internal affairs for minor matters.
Snyder, Williams and Venziale are in police custody, Ramsey said.
"We are in the process of terminating all three," Ramsey said. "Those three are history, but that will be the least of their worries."
The scheme was hatched in April 20, when Venziale met with reputed drug dealer Angel "Fat Boy" Ortiz near the North Philadelphia Amtrak station, according to the indictment. Venziale and Ortiz discussed a plan to steal, with the illegal assistance of Philadelphia police officers, 300 grams of heroin from Miguel Santiago, the indictment states.
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Give ‘em a break, they were just trying to fit in.
Just another isolated incident, no doubt...
hmmmmmm, a rainbow coalition.
Life imitates art: isn’t this the plot of “Witness?”
Black and white are trumped by green.
An out and out major crime, about the only thing that occifers can be yanked for.
The D-cells of Justice stand ready.
Tryin’ to relate to the peeps.
Prohibition was introduced as a fraud; it has been nursed as a fraud. It is wrapped in the livery of Heaven, but it comes to serve the devil. It comes to regulate by law our appetites and our daily lives. It comes to tear down liberty and build up fanaticism, hypocrisy, and intolerance. It comes to confiscate by legislative decree the property of many of our fellow citizens. It comes to send spies, detectives, and informers into our homes; to have us arrested and carried before courts and condemned to fines and imprisonments. It comes to dissipate the sunlight of happiness, peace, and prosperity in which we are now living and to fill our land with alienations, estrangements, and bitterness. It comes to bring us evil - only evil - and that continually. Let us rise in our might as one and overwhelm it with such indignation that we shall never hear of it again as long as grass grows and water runs. -- Roger Q. Mills
ping to the drug warriors...
“I’m personally pissed off about this kind of behavior,” Mayor Nutter said at a news conference at police headquarters this afternoon.”
Did he say exactly what peeved him - was it the dealing or the undercover DEA guy?
Unless they are complete idiots, a week should be enough time.
Never knowing when one of these yo yo’s are going to snap and get you killed by doing something stupid because they are thinking about their dope instead of what they should be doing.
Yea, a week is generally more than enough time to change someones mind.
Here is the whole verse which weighed so heavily in his debate (I enlarged upon the teachings of God's Word concerning the question of tempting others to do wrong, and particularly dwelt upon the verse that has just been quoted.
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken (his quote ends here) also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
Cranfill left off the reason why to not give a neighbour drink and it wasn't to keep them from simply becoming drunk.
Cranfill was deceptive and a deceiver from the outset and hypes himself as a victor. Another liberal tendency.
Those darn 1885 liberals!
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