it's the usual suspects....
Posted on 02/22/2012 4:55:03 PM PST by Larry381
JACKSON, MS—Monyette Quintel Jefferson, 27, Terence Dale Jenkins, 25, and Anthony Ricardo Payne, Jr., 25, all Jackson Police Department patrol officers at the time of the offense, have been arrested for accepting bribes to protect what they believed to be drug transactions following an undercover operation, U.S. Attorney John Dowdy and FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen announced today.
On June 25, 2010, an undercover FBI agent, posing as a drug dealer, met with Officers Monyette Quintel Jefferson and Anthony Ricardo Payne at Metro Center Mall to discuss their protection of a shipment of cocaine that was coming into Jackson. Later that day, Jefferson arrived at Hawkins Field Airport in Jackson and assisted the undercover FBI agent in removing four suitcases, which Jefferson believed to contain cocaine, from an airplane and into the undercover FBI agent’s vehicle. Jefferson was paid $6,000 for his protection.
Also on June 25, 2010, Officer Terence Dale Jenkins provided protection for what he believed was a drug transaction of approximately 20 kilos of cocaine between two undercover FBI agents in the parking lot of Hawkins Field Airport. Jenkins was paid $5,000 for protecting the transaction, and then provided further protection by following the second undercover FBI agent from Hawkins Field Airport to Interstate 20. Later that afternoon, another undercover FBI agent arrived at Hawkins Field Airport and simulated the purchase of approximately 20 kilos of cocaine from the first undercover FBI agent in the presence of Payne and Jefferson. Payne was paid $5,000 for his protection and then provided further protection by following the third undercover FBI agent from Hawkins Field Airport to the Hanging Moss Road area.
In each instance, the defendants were either in their Jackson Police Department uniform or driving their patrol car.
“It is a reprehensible crime for a police officer to betray the badge. If a police officer chooses to side with criminals they have sworn to protect the public from, they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Nothing about these arrests should reflect adversely on law enforcement as a whole. The overwhelming majority of men and women who strap on a badge every day and put their lives on the line are dedicated and honorable,” said U.S. Attorney Dowdy.
Daniel McMullen, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in Mississippi, stated: “These officers swore to protect and serve the citizens of Jackson and, instead, sought opportunities to enrich themselves at the public’s expense.”
Must have thought they were in Chicago.
You get what you ask for.
I’ve never yet met anyone named Monyette that could be trusted.
They must not have been sharing.
Hang ‘em-———High
There’s a lesson here —— Never hire an Amish man as a cop.
That was a damn good line.
lol
Hilariously stupid, and sadly not surprising.
Any picture of the suspects?
Think a picture is really necessary for Monyette Quintel Jefferson?
it's the usual suspects....
Just remember, it’s not the first time a policeman took a bribe.
What might have been funnier is if the FBI and Jackson Police Department were both trying to sting the other.
What might have been funnier is if the FBI and Jackson Police Department were both trying to sting the other.
I know he was guilty as hell but in that particular instance he was just interested in the girl...dope maybe later but he definitely just wanted to get it on and in MNSHO he took the drugs (after 7 or 8 requests) so the women would shut up and he could get in one with the “Bitch set me up”. Which has to be the ‘greatest’ line since Sherrif Bart’s “Where da white wimmen”?
Happened in MI, once. Mighigan Militia. 140 folks or so in the room, when it got busted.
139 were cops.
The other poor sucker is probably buried under the prison.
The larger story is that real bribes from real drug dealers happen all the time (just as they did during Prohibition) - and that the real drug dealers have the means and motive to bribe because the War On Drugs hyperinflates their profit margins while having no demonstrable impact on the level of drug use.
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