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Angeles police officer assigned to the department's scandal-scarred Rampart Division was charged with making false arrests after he was caught in a sting operation, officials said. Authorities said Officer Edward Beltran Zamora arrested two undercover officers for investigation of drug possession, although a surveillance video showed they had no drugs.

Baylor regent under investigation by university officials By BRIAN GAAR, CINDY V. CULP and J.B. SMITH Tribune-Herald staff writers After refusing a request to resign, a member of Baylor University's Board of Regents on Friday became the official target of an internal investigation into whether she tipped off Baylor students to an ongoing undercover drug sting operation on campus, several sources said. Jaclanel Moore McFarland, a Houston attorney and board member since 2001, has told Baylor officials that she did not tip off anyone to the drug operation, saying she did not even know that one was under way until...

Jury sees video of ex-police chief allegedly accepting bribe 02/19/2003 By LYNN BREZOSKY / The Associated PressMcALLEN, Texas — The grainy surveillance tape shows two friends, one a boisterous drug dealer boasting about his girlfriends, the other a mild-mannered policeman counting out $500 he made using his patrol car to protect the other's apparent narcotics haul."Easiest five hundred bucks you ever made," Rigoberto Quintanilla says in the video."Too easy," then-Donna police officer Marco Abel Partida responds. "I'm in the wrong business, dude."The video is part of the prosecution's case in a federal jury trial that goes into its second day...