WORMSCAN: WORMSCAN [PART 4 1996-1998]

Involvement of Politicians, Judges, Lawyers, & Police in the Drug Business

NOTES: I made a few corrections to spellings but left the original document mainly untouched. All dates are in YYMMDD format. These files are only a portion of the entire WORMSCAN file and includes all entries from 1993 to 1995. I had to break it up due to length. There are hundreds of pages.

This is a continuation of the file named WORMSCAN.

WORMSCAN: WORMSCAN [PART 1 1981-1987]

WORMSCAN: WORMSCAN [PART 2 1988-1992]

WORMSCAN: WORMSCAN [PART 3 1993-1995]

960102, Urbandale, IA, The Des Moines Register.  Urbandale Police Officer James R Trimble (43) is arrested with methamphetamine. This 18-year veteran of The Force also had scores of sex-related items in his van.  Officer Trimble was also a D.A.R.E.  cop, teaching the children all about drugs.  Much more in WORMSCAN.&

960105, Newark, NJ, Star Ledger.  Police Officer Darrell Armstrong is ordered reinstated after he was fired for cocaine use.  Officer Armstrong testified that his wife had put cocaine in his juice, unbeknownst to him.  He claimed that this was her treatment for his bad back!  More in WORMSCAN.&

960105, New York City, NY, NY Times.  Police Officer, Steven L Pataki (32) is sentenced to three months in jail for perjury. Lest this seem harsh, note that the civilian convicted on the strength of Officer Pataki's testimony spent three years in prison.  And that's just one.  Of course Officer Pataki's lawyers claim that the testimony against him is perjured.  See 950407, 951207, 960110, 960112.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960106, Peru & Columbia, NBC.  WASHINGTON (Reuter) - The United States is quietly directing Peru and Colombia in a campaign to shoot down planes operated by South American drug cartels, NBC News reported Friday.  Quoting unidentified sources, the network said the Pentagon, the Customs Service and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) were involved in directing tracking and intelligence gathering outposts in Peru and Colombia.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960107, New York City, NY, Trenton Times.  Police Officer Darryl Edmunds was on the payroll of a crack cocaine gang operating in Manhattan.  Officer Edmunds warned his gang of impending police actions, and even carried a gang beeper.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960110, New York City, NY, NY Times.  In the perjury trial of Police Officer, Michael Dauphinee, in State Supreme Court, former Supervisor Kevin P.  Nannery testified that his Force would routinely break, enter, and rob apartments suspected of belonging to drug dealers.  Nannery testified that top aide Captain Lewis T Manetta handed him a sledgehammer and that Precinct Commander Captain Peter J Buccino led the raids.  See 950407, 951207, 960105, 960112.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960111, Boston, MA, PRN.  Bernard G Sylvia, "corrections" officer at the Bristol County "House of Correction" [no jails in The People's Democratic Republican Commonwealth of Massachusetts] pleaded guilty to laundering $250,000 in drug money.  He was paid in cocaine.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960112, New York City, NY Times.  Police Commissioner William J. Bratton denies endemic corruption in New York's 30th Precinct. See 950407, 951207, 960105, 960110.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960115, Sydney, Australia, AP.  New South Wales Police Commissioner Tony Lauer said he was retiring in the wake of exposure that senior officers have taken bribes from underworld figures for years.  Other have dealt in narcotics and prostitution.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960118, New York, NY, NY Times.  Police Officers Hilton Velez (28), and Bienveni Rodriguez (25), formerly partners in the 75th Precinct in East New York, were caught stealing cash and simulated cocaine in a setup made to look like a drug dealer's apartment.  Also caught was a "civilian employee", Felix Acosta (28).  The 75th Precinct was previously the base of Officer Michael Dowd, who admitted running a drug ring from the station house between 1986 and 1992 and accepting tens of thousands of dollars in payoffs from dealers.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960120, Philadelphia, PA, Reuters.  Police Officer Louis Maiier is sentenced to five years for conspiracy to deny civil rights by framing the punks on drug charges.  See 880601, 950623.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960126, Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia Inquirer.  Former Philadelphia, PA, Police officers Thomas DeGovanni, Thomas Ryan, James Ryan, John Baird and Steven Brown have had their sentencing postponed.  All have pleaded guilty to assorted charges of fabricating evidence of drug dealing and of stealing over $100,000 from the criminals.  The reason given for this third postponement is that more cops have been implicated.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960130, Mexico City, Mexico, Reuters.  Jose Armando Cruz Gutierrez, who was voted policeman of the year just two months ago by colleagues in the Chihuahua state detective force, was arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking with 436 pounds of marijuana.  Also detained were three other policemen including Chihuahua state detective police commander Gerardo Maximiliano Coronel and his wife.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960201, Ashland, KY, WEKU.  Pike County, KY, Judge Stearns pleads guilty to avoid a second trial.  The jury hung in the first trial.  The prosecution promised to play more tapes of Hiz Hon'her dealing drugs.  It is undisclosed exactly what was pleaded.  Stearns was charged with one count of conspiracy to traffic in narcotics, three counts of cocaine distribution, and one count each of possession and distribution of pain killers.

960201, New York City, NY, NY Times.  Police Officer Randolf Vazquez (39) acknowledged in court that between October 1991 and April 1992 he engaged in a conspiracy with his partner, Officer Jorge Alvarez, to steal narcotics while on duty and sell them to dealers.  He admitted to taking crack from an apartment in October and selling it.  He also admitted to assaulting Paul Stevens while in a police car.  His punishment is six months in jail.  Officer Alvarez, who cooperated with the authorities, pleaded guilty to third-degree grand larceny and faces up to seven years in prison.  Of 33 officers arrested on corruption charges since March 1994, 20 have pleaded guilty, 3 have been convicted and 2 have been acquitted.  Two cases were dismissed and six are pending.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960210, Mexico City, Mexico, Reuter.  Up to 30 tons of cocaine have disappeared into the hands of Mexican federal police over the last two years, the Mexico City newspaper El Financiero reported Saturday.  The newspaper said that in the last two years more than 100 tons of cocaine has entered Mexico by air, but police have seized and declared just a tenth of that amount. Earlier this week, the Mexican Attorney-General's office accused 19 Mexican police officers of helping Colombia's Cali drug cartel smuggle cocaine into the United Sates.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960212, Baja California Sur, Mexico, LA Times.  19 Mexican state and federal police officers, including the deputy federal police chief in the state of Baja California Sur have been arrested for their part in smuggling 10 tons of cocaine.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960213, Daytona Beach, FL, Philadelphia Inquirer.  Francis "Frank" Thompson (52) of Ormond Beach, a veteran of the Daytona Beach Police Department, was found guilty by a federal jury yesterday of stealing cocaine and guns from his department's evidence room over seven years and giving them to Timothy Wardle (35), his nephew, in Philadelphia for sale on the streets.  He was cleared of two counts of distributing cocaine.  His business thus did not distribute the 10 kilograms of cocaine which he stole.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960213, San Jose, CA, LA Times.  Joseph D.  McNamara, 35 year veteran police officer and the former police chief of San Jose, claims that police are taught to lie.  He implies that the majority of police testimony in drug cases is perjured.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960221, New York City, NY, NY Times.  Two United States Customs inspectors have been charged with kidnapping and beating a suspected drug dealer last year while trying to rob him of cash and cocaine, Federal prosecutors said.  Richard Ramos and Gerasimos Kapsaskis, who worked as inspectors at Kennedy and Newark airports, were arrested on Friday and charged in the kidnapping of a man on Sept.  23, 1995, on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960323, San Francisco, CA, San Francisco Chronicle.  Three cops are NOT charged with theft for failing to book property stolen over a 14 month period.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960224, Mexico, PNS, by Beatriz Johnston Hernandez.  Accused drug trafficker Juan Garcia Abrego, now awaiting trial in Houston, is notorious for bribing high-level Mexican officials to help turn Mexico into a major transshipment point for Colombian cocaine. Less known is his role in bribing federal officials on the U.S. side of the border.  Information gleaned from drug trials and gang insiders reveals that Abrego paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars to Immigration and Naturalization Service agents and National Guardsmen to drive cocaine and marijuana in their buses past U.S.  customs checkpoints on the road between McAllen and Houston.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960224, New York City, NY, NY Times.  Police officer in the Unionport section of The Bronx, Antonio Camacho (22) was arrested for drug trafficking.  Gang leader was his brother-in-law, Pedro Perez (31).  The case prompted related arrests of 85 people in recent weeks in Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, and Newark, N.J., and the seizure of more than 5 tons of cocaine, a half-ton of marijuana, and nearly $12.5 million in drug proceeds.  Another accused courier, Edward Vasquez, arrested on Friday in Pennsylvania, spent 14 years in the National Guard and transported drugs in his Army sergeant's uniform.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960226, FBI, Wash DC, Star Ledger.  US attorney's offices throughout the nation have been directed by the Justice Department to weed through cases in their files in an effort to identify cases that could be tainted by allegations of misconduct involving the FBI crime lab in Washington.  Dr Frederic Whitehurst, a supervisory special agent, contends that certain FBI lab examiners have slanted their conclusions to favor the prosecution; that certain FBI examiners who testify in criminal proceedings are not qualified to analyze the evidence involved in those cases; and that certain key units within the lab maintain insufficient scientific controls over the testing procedures. More in WORMSCAN.&

960226, Abingdon, VA, WSEK.  Cop Stevens, former Letcher County, KY, sheriff's deputy and former Whitesburg, KY, police officer is charged with handcuffing his girlfriend and pistol whipping her, and threatening to inject her with AIDS contaminated blood.  In addition he is charged with narcotics possession with intent to traffic.

960226, Guamuchilito, Mexico, SF Chronicle.  Amado Carrillo, Mexico's biggest drug trafficker may be a wanted man north of the border, but back home he walks tall and unafraid.  More hero worship for the man who brings BIG bux to his home village.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960321, New York City, NY, AP.  Harlem police officer Barry Brown admits that lying in court is standard operating procedure.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960326, Philadelphia, PA,.  The Civil Rights Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association will host a forum titled "Police Accountability: Problems, Solutions, and the Role of Special Commissions." The forum will be held from 5:30PM to 8:00PM on March 26, 1996, in Philadelphia.  In New Orleans, more than 50 police officers have been arrested, indicted or convicted since 1993 on charges including rape, aggravated battery, drug trafficking and murder.  In Atlanta, six police officers were arrested in September of last year on drug charges and extorting money from citizens for police protection.  In Philadelphia, six police officers confessed to planting drugs on suspects, lying under oath and stealing from innocent citizens.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960327, St Louis, MO, UPI.  Cop George DeLuca (55), 20 year veteran of the New York City Police Department, was sentenced to life in prison for running a cocaine and heroin trafficking business in New York & St Louis.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960327, Los Angeles, CA, Pittsburgh Post Gazette.  Cop admits lying about arrest of Rodney King.  Los Angeles police officer Clint Garver admits that he lied in testimony about preparation of the arrest memo.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960330, Louisville, KY, Courier-Journal.  Louisville Police Chief Richard Frey (50) was sentenced to 5 years 3 months in prison for bribery.  He was on the payroll at $4,000 per month of J Clifford Todd to supply criminals for Todd's private prison.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960330, New Castle, PA, The Philadelphia Inquirer.  Rodney King (of Los Angeles beating fame) was found innocent of drunken driving.  The cop that arrested him admitted in court that he had lied about the arrest report.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960331, New Orleans, LA, New York Times Magazine (3/31/96, p.32) via RISKS DIGEST 18.01 The FBI was wiretapping a number of New Orleans police officers who were allegedly guarding a 286 pound shipment of cocaine.  During that time the FBI overheard a conversation between the police chief and several other police officials that the FBI alleges was a murder plot.  The intended victim had previously filed a police brutality complaint against the chief.  Kim Groves, a 32 year old mother of three, was shot while standing in front of her house.  960424, police officer Len Davis (31) and triggerman Paul Hardy (28) were convicted and sentenced to death.  No report on The Chief. Davis and eight others of New Orleans' Finest still face charges in the cocaine deal.

960416, New York City, NY, NY Times.  Cocaine dealing cop gets 8 years in prison.  A nine year veteran of The Force, Harlem 30th Precinct police officer Christopher DiLorenzo (32) admitted that he stole money and drugs.  From Jan 91 to Dec 92, Officer DiLorenzo received $50,000 in protection, thefts, and his cut of four pounds of cocaine.  Officer DiLorenzo also admitted to taking $500 per week from other dealers for over a year, and perjury while convicting those who did not pay.  His partner in crime, Officer Alberto Vargas, has pleaded guilty and is to be sentenced later this year.  Eleven other former officers from the 30th Precinct remain to be sentenced.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960416, Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia Daily News.  5 cops sentenced for corruption.  The leader of the corrupt officers, John Baird (41) got 13 years.  Cop Steven Brown (49), 10 years. Sgt.  Thomas DeGovanni (45), 7 years.  James Ryan (40), 6 years. Thomas Ryan, 10 months.  These Officers of The Force were charged with robbery, assault, planting evidence, false arrest, but strangely, not with selling the stolen drugs, false testimony at trials if their victims, or RICO.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960424, Philadelphia, PA, Phila Inq.  Corruption investigation spreads to Bureau of Narcotics Investigation.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960425, Los Angeles, CA, LA Times.  SCAN.  Southeast Cities [of Los Angeles County] Against Narcotics Task Force members caught keeping some of the booty for themselves.  More in WORMSCAN.&&

960426, Norristown, PA, Phila Inq.  Greaterford Prison guard Ronald Shepherd (46) found guilty of smuggling heroin into the prison.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960501, Cincinnati, OH, KNN.  Christopher Kerins (39) an Officer of The Force of Trenton, NJ, for 13 years, was caught robbing the Kenwood Savings Bank while attending a cop convention in Cincinnati.  He then led local cops on a 20 minute high speed chase.  Must be harder to get away in Cincinnati.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960502, Trenton, NJ, AP.  It appears that Officer Kerins was more than he first appeared.  He was on the narco squad, chasing drug dealers and lecturing on the horrors of narcotics abuse.  But in addition to robbing the Cincinnati bank, he has admitted to robbing 4 other banks in New Jersey, and trafficking in heroin. More armed robberies are suspected.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960502, Dallas, TX, Dallas Morning News.  $50,000 in cash disappears from a safe accessed by seven narcotics supervisors. And an Officer who was fired last year for improper searches of "drug dealer" apartments and then lying about it has been rehired.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960505, Oklahoma, Sunday Oklahoman, p1.  Drug Agent Travis Palmer admits to embezzling funds from his federally funded Drug Task Farce in Lincoln County.  District Attorney Paul Anderson in Payne and Logan counties embezzled $90,000 from his Drug Task Farce.  More in WORMSCAN.&

960515, London, KY, WSEK.  FBI Special Confidential Informant Robert Foley is demanding an overturn on his conviction for his murder of the Vaughn brothers.  And the family of the victims is suing the FBI for $12,100,000 since Foley would have been in prison if the FBI had not protected him.

960517, Urbandale, Iowa, police officer James R. Trimble made News of the Weird after his arrest in January, when he was caught driving around in his car with a battery-operated "sexual device inserted into his body." Police said Trimble took $20,000 worth of methamphetamine from the department's evidence locker and also had marijuana, cocaine, and LSD in his car when he was arrested, along with "scores" of sexually-explicit videotapes and photos. In May, Trimble was "sentenced" to probation, a $1,000 fine, and 100 hours' community service.  Though the police department fired him, his community service will consist of what he used to do as an officer--give anti-drug motivational speeches in local schools.  [Des Moines Register, 5-17-96]

960601, Benton, AR, AP.  Dan Harmon, the prosecutor for Saline, Grant and Hot Spring counties, attacked and beat The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reporter Rodney Bowers.  Bowers' crime was to question Harmon about property seized by a drug task force that Harmon had controlled before it was disbanded this year.  More in WORMSCAN.&&

960608, Forrest City, AR.  Old news, post 1985.  Sheriff Coolidge Conlee was nabbed by the FBI for extortion and drug-dealing and sentenced to 160 years in jail, where he died of natural causes.

960711, Chicago, IL, WBBM.  Chief of Police Jack Davis (58) of Ford [?] Heights (south suburbs of Chicago) was arrested by the FBI for extortion and aiding and abetting drug gangs.

960807, New York City, NY, NPR.  More convictions of New York's "Finest" in the "Dirty Thirty" police corruption trials.  Of the 33 cops arrested for assorted drug dealing and extortion, 0 have been convicted, 1 acquitted, and 0 pleaded guilty.

960821, San Jose, CA, San Jose Mercury News.  Profits from tons of cocaine went to the Nicaraguan Contras.  Repeated attempts to prosecute the drug kingpin were thwarted by the CIA.  Oscar Danilo Blandon Reyes said that in 1981, his operation sold almost a ton of cocaine for about $54,000,000 to the Los Angeles street gangs, the Crips and the Bloods.  The primary buyer was Ricky Donnell Ross, who manufactured and distributed crack on a national scale.  Blandon's boss was Juan Norwin Meneses Cantarero of Burlingame & Pacifica, CA, who had protection since 1974. Investigations are still blocked for "National Security".  More in WORMSCAN.&& http://www.sjmercury.com/drugs/start.htm

960904, Philadelphia, PA, NPR.  Philadelphia has paid over 8 million dollars and overturned 150 convictions in the month of August 96 in an attempt to mitigate its massive police corruption.  See a long litany of previous notes.  Fraternal Order of Police Costello decries the citizens picking on The Finest.  All sorts of new rules to prevent police corruption have been instigated, and will work as well as they did the previous times.  Someone mentioned that the drug money is too enticing to the narco cops for the corruption to stop.

960916, Houston, TX, incinc@tiac.net .
* Jury selection begins today in Houston, Texas, in the trial of Juan Garcia Abrego of Mexico.
- Abrego is the alleged head of a strong Mexican drug-smuggling cartel, and is facing drug-trafficking, bribery, and money laundering charges.

961010, Chicago, IL, WBBM.  Four current and two former Ford Heights (Chicago suburb) cops including Chief Jack Davis are indicted by a federal grand jury on assorted corruption, racketeering, bribery and extortion charges.  Our Finest are accused of protecting about 20 crack, cocaine, and heroin dealers who paid their rent, and busting those who refused.  Their business dates back to 1988, but netted only "tens of thousands of dollars".  This leaves a total of two unindicted officers. James Burns, US Attorney.  Jack Davis was convicted on 970211.

961026, New Orleans, LA, Morning Advocate p8B, RR.  John Alonzo (34), 12 year veteran of The Force, pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine.

961028, Washington, DC, Washington Weekly.  More contemporary politician <--> drug trafficking connections.  Jorge Cabrera, the Miami drug trafficker that gave $20,000 to the Democratic party, and got his pictures taken with Hillary Clinton and with Al Gore.  In the recent drug trial of Juan Garcia Abrego, witnesses testified that Abrego paid millions of dollars in bribes to police and public officials on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.  Rep.  Jim Traficant (D-OH) said last summer that "somebody in high places, both in Mexico and in Washington, is getting awfully rich" off the drug trafficking from Mexico to the U.S.  More in WORMS2

Date: Fri, 1 Nov 96 13:38:15 -0000
From: Williams Institute
Subject: Williams Charges Bush With High Treason!

As I continue to turn up the heat on the murderous drug-dealing traitor, George Herbert Walker Bush, I have now arranged for the 434 page book, "George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography" to be uploaded to my web page.  The 1.2 megabyte book is now there, available for downloading.  http://www.kmf.org/williams/

961122, Jackson, Breathitt Co, KY, WKYU, WSEK, KNN, KET. Breathitt County Sheriff Ray Clemmons was arrested at 7AM at Hardees by FBI and State Police on felony misprison.  In English, this means that he knew of a plantation of one hundred marijuana plants, and did nothing about it.  His daughter Crystal and son-in-law Mike Southwood were also arrested for possession of marijuana plants.  It is unstated if this is the misprisoned marijuana.  This is coincidental to 700 street level marijuana and crack dealers who were caught with $104,000 in undercover buys.  Note that later reports give 525 criminals and 949 charges.

961127, Somerset, NJ, NPR.  Nick Bissel, county prosecutor in New Jersey, killed himself under impending arrest in Nevada.  Bissel was known for his aggressive property forfeiture, much of which was then sold at bargain rates to his friends.  He also became famous for threatening to plant cocaine in the car of a gasoline distributor who had refused a special discount for Bissel's gas station.

961212, New Orleans, LA, Morning Advocate p4B, RR.  David Henry Gussman, Jr of Morgan City, 9 year veteran of the St Mary Sheriff Dept charged with conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine.

961220, Chicago, IL, WBBM.  Operation Broken Shield.  Seven Police Officers in the Austin District on westside Chicago, are under Federal Indictment for corruption.  Chicago's Finest are accused of extortion of drug dealers and armed robbery of others.  All of whom were FBI agents.  Speculation is that maybe the other cops and their Superiors might have had similar dealings with the other drug dealers.  Edward Jackson, Gregory Kriddleton, et al the cops and robbers.  961223.  Illegal drugs were found in several cops' lockers.  Three cops have sung, and implicated four other cops.  Cops brought an undercover agent into the Police Station to rob him of $10,000.  Edward Jackson was a member of a violent drug gang.  970114, WBBM.  District Commander LeRoy O'Shields served a federal subpoena for his involvement.  Four other districts are involved in the cop corruption.  970125, Austin District, Chicago, IL, WBBM.  21 drug cases have been dropped and hundreds more are under review because prosecution would require the testimony of defrocked cops.  Also another Chicago area cop has been arrested for a scam where he falsified auto accident reports and sent the owners to cooperating body shops.

970105, Harlem, NY, CBS.  Cop corruption has cost taxpayers $10 million in court costs defending the corrupt cops from framed "drug dealers" in the Harlem 30th precinct.

970208, Tucson, AZ, Albuquerque, NM, THE LIBERTARIAN, Vin Suprynowicz.  David Aguilar (44) killed 970110 by DEA agent staking out the neighborhood.  This is the Three Points area 22 miles west of Tucson.  Ralph Garrison (69) in downtown Albuquerque, NM, killed by ninja warriors breaking into his rental house next door.  Turns out that they were just Albuquerque Police looking for fake IDs.

970205, Chicago, IL, WBBM.  Cop Sprigman arrested at Police Headquarters by the FBI for distribution of a kilogram of cocaine.  And Austin district Orificer Gregory Crittleton [Kribbleton?] has agreed to plead guilty to shaking down his drug dealers.

970205, Chicago, IL, WBBM.  Crittleton balks!  Suburban North Lake Chief of Police Seymour Zapaznick arrested for corruption. The Chief is accused of taking over $24,000 over four years in bribes from The Mob.

970211, Ford Heights, Chicago, IL, WBBM.  Ford Heights cop Jack Davis is convicted of racketeering for fixing court cases for drug dealers.  Six more cops to go.

970219, Mexico, WBBM.  The Mexican Official who just got caught taking a salary from the cocaine smugglers, General Jesus fillinduhblank, had a meeting with the DEA shortly before his arrest.  Subject of the meeting was all that the DEA thought that they knew on cocaine smuggling across the Mexican border.  The DEA is still in damage control phase.

Daily Brief 970221
* US drug officials are trying to figure how much information about drug enforcement was revealed to the director of Mexico's National Institute for Drug Policy.
- Jose de Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo was arrested Tuesday in Mexico and removed from his post on suspicions he was on a drug lord's payroll.
- had extensive briefings with US anti-drug law enforcement.
* Mexico fired 36 anti-narcotics agents yesterday that were connected with former National Institute for Combating Drugs head, Gen. Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo.
- Rebollo was fired last week and arrested for working for Mexico's top drug baron, Amado Carrillo Fuentes.

Daily Brief 970318
* Another Mexican army brigadier general was arrested yesterday on charges he offered a multi-million dollar bribe to a top Mexican law enforcement official.
- reportedly on behalf of a cocaine cartel.

970318, Chicago, IL, WBBM.  More cops and drugs in the Gresham District.  Sounds like Chicago's Finest robbed some drug dealers who turned out to be also FBI agents.  6th district?  Tyrone ?, Baxter Sweet, and Gerald Mecham robbed supposed dealers of $11K and $12K and drugs, which they sold to Meeks, a civilian.  Stolen drugs were found in the lockers of two of the three cops.  US Attorney Jim Burns presiding.  Mayor Daley II says that probably most cops are honest, but he wants even more corrupt cops caught to reassure the public that something is being done.  Your wish shall be granted.

970416, Washington, DC, NPR.  The Supreme Court rules 8-1 that drug testing political candidates violates their constitutional rights.  But it is OK to drug test school children.

970425, London, KY, WSEK.  FBI Confidential Informant Robert Foley now has six death sentences against him.  His appeal on murdering four dealer associates and casting them into a septic tank was denied.

970524, Mexico, NY Times via RISKS.  Mexican General Gutierrez arrested only the drug traffickers who were the competition for his client.

970611, Little Rock, AR, WSJ.  Former county prosecuting attorney Dan Harmon is convicted in US District Court of using his office as a criminal enterprise to extort narcotics and cash, handing in guilty verdicts on five counts of racketeering, extortion and drug distribution.  More in WORMSCAN.&&

970627, Miami, FL, AP.  Jerome R. Sullivan (42), a 25-year FBI veteran who headed an organized crime squad that nabbed John Gotti's heir apparent was indicted Thursday on charges of stealing more than $400,000, including mob money he helped seize.  More in WORMSCAN.&&

970708, New Orleans, LA, Morning Advocate p7B, RR.  Ron Singleton (37) 7 year veteran of the New Orleans Police Dept convicted of selling cocaine.  His brother, David Singleton (38), 18 year veteran of the New Orleans Police Dept also convicted of cocaine distribution.

970709, Congressional Record, pp4994+, Rep Waters.  Let us look at Venezuela.  Earlier this year, there was a general named Gen. Ramon Guillen Davila, Venezuela's former drug czar, who was indicted by Federal prosecutors in Miami for smuggling cocaine into the United States.

And according to the New York Times, uncontested by the CIA, this article that appeared as early as November 1993, they talked about the CIA and its so-called antidrug program in Venezuela and guess what?  They concluded, and it is documented, that our CIA shipped a ton of nearly pure cocaine into the United States in 1990.  That is a fact, uncontested.  More in WORMSCAN.&&&

Let me go a little bit further and talk about this alignment, this association, the CIA being involved, coming too close to people who traffic in drugs.  In a March 8, 1997, Los Angeles Times article, it was reported that Lt.  Col.  Michel Francois, one of the CIA's Haitian agents, and I defy anybody to tell me he was not, a former army officer and a key leader in the military regime that ran Haiti between 1991 and 1994, he was indicted in Miami and charged with smuggling 33 tons of cocaine into the United States.  More in WORMSCAN.&&

970720, New Orleans, LA, Morning Advocate, RR.  James Pollard (38), 17 year veteran of The Force, drug charges.

970723, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, AP.  Haitian police chief Lt. Gen. Joseph Michel Francois is accused of smuggling 33 tons of Columbian cocaine to the United States.  See WORMSCAN.&&

970728, Mexico City, MX, AP.  Gunmen have shot and wounded witness Ricardo Cesareo Vazquez Tafolla.  The attackers were linked to Brig.  Gen.  Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo.  The Mexican cocaine trade is reorganizing after the death of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, the Juarez cartel.  More in WORMSCAN.&&

970728, Mexico, Miami Herald.  10 Mexican generals and 22 other military officers are under investigation for alleged ties to drug traffickers.  More in WORMSCAN.&&

970810, Mexico, LA Times.  And more drug corruption in Mexico's Army.  More in WORMSCAN.&&

970812, New Orleans, LA, CBS.  Two more cops caught protecting their drug dealers.  Another cop spent $750,000 of taxpayers money defending himself on murder charges.

970812, Chicago, IL, WBBM.  Sonia Erwin was sentenced for doing several million dollars of drug business with the Gangster Disciples while also a Chicago cop.

970812, Los Angeles, CA, CBS.  Immigration Agent Thomas Flair stashed 600 pounds of marijuana in an Agency van.  Apparently this was not part of the government Plan.

970813, New Orleans, LA, Morning Advocate p5B, RR.  Officers Leon R Duincan (38) and Lemmie Rodgers (35) indicted on conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine.

970820, El Paso, TX, Reuters.  Mexican drug lords are hiring ex US soldiers.  This has the Border Patrol a bit concerned for their safety.  More in WORNSCAN.&&

970904, New Orleans, LA, Morning Advocate, RR.  Lafayette Parish Police Chief Jerry Carpenter, and officers Byron Romero, and Darrell Brousard, are charged with planting drugs.

970911, Mexico City, Mexico, Washington Post.  The entire staff of 18 of a special Mexican unit responsible for intercepting drug-running aircraft has been arrested after it allegedly used one of its own planes to smuggle cocaine from the Guatemalan border to a government hangar Mexico City.  More in WORMSCAN,&&

970918, San Francisco, CA, AP.  The CIA is sued by DEA agent Richard A.  Horn for systematically spying on DEA overseas.  More in WORMSCAN.&&&

970918, Detroit, MI, AP.  * cops indicted for robbery, planting evidence, perjury, etc.  Is this news anymore?  More in WORMSCAN.&&&

971010, Manila, Philippines, Reuter.  President Ramos vowed to crack-down on bureaucrats suspected of participating in the drug trade.  The drug trade is estimated to be more than half the national budget.  More in WORMSCAN.&&&

971016, Houston, TX, Reuters.  Mexico's efforts to clean up drug corruption expected to yield results in 20 years.  It is already beginning to produce a few honest cops.  Such as Gen.  Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo.  More in WORMSCAN.&&&

971105, Boston, MA, BW.  Police Sgt Wilbur Brittle, Jr pleads guilty to international heroin smuggling.  More in WORMSCAN.&&&

971028, Miami, FL, Miami Herald.  Michael Abbell and William Moran are convicted on one count of racketeering, but hung the jury on assorted drug conspiracy charges.  More in WORMSCAN.&&& See 950606

971110. 
* A study released by White House drug czar Barry McCaffrey says $57.3 billion was spent on illegal drugs in the U.S.  in 1995.  - the report says the amount spent was down slightly from the previous year.

971211, Mexico City, Mexico, ABC.  The new and improved Chief Detective of Mexico City is forced out with allegations of really working for the drug smugglers in Tijuana.

971216, Kansas & Frankfort, KY, KET.  Rex Hall (54), his brother Stephen?  and a third were arrested after a camper full of Mexican marijuana was picked up in Kansas.  Police followed them back to Lexington (or Frankfort?), Kentucky, and thence to a farm where ten pounds of cocaine and 300 pounds of marijuana, valued at over one million dollars, were seized.  The interesting part is that Mr. Hall used to be a Lexington cop, twenty years ago. Another one of Drew Thorton's associates.  See _The Bluegrass Conspiracy_.

971222, Chicago, IL, WBBM.  Four cops were convicted of robbing some drug dealers who were also undercover cops.  Tyrone Francis and Gerald Meecham.  location Gresham?  Dirksen Federal Building.

980121, Cleveland, OH, Daily Brief 980122.
* The FBI arrested 42 Cleveland-area law enforcement officers yesterday in connection with a sting operation in which the officers were paid to providing protection for a cocaine ring.

980123, Jackson, Breathitt Co, KY, WSEK.  Albert Martinez, a four year veteran of The Force, was sentenced for fraudulently obtaining drugs.

980202, Chicago, IL, WBBM.  Gillespie claims that three Austin police planted drugs on him.  This is a violation of Constitution Rights under something.  These are the cops who got caught robbing drug dealers disguised as undercover officers.

980316, US House, Rep Maxine Waters.  Does not believe the CIA/Contra not-a-connection.  Before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence More in WORMSCAN.&4

980322, Plano, TX, WBAP.  Big fuss over some undercover narc who gave heroin to a 14 year old boy.

980326, Mexico, NYT.  Evidence that the Mexican Military is still in business with the drug dealers.  Apparently General Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo, of the National Institute for the Combat of Drugs, described by McCaffrey as a soldier "of absolute, unquestioned integrity," was not the last on the payroll of Amado Carrillo Fuentes.  More in WORMSCAN.&4

980327, Chicago, IL, WBBM.  Austin Police Officer Cornelius Tripp pleads guilty to weapons and racketeering and agrees to testify against his partners.  Gregory Kribbleton [Crittleton?] plead guilty last week and Lenon Shields plead guilty last year.  Ummm, the original charge was robbing some drug dealers who were disguised as FBI agents.  Also a bunch of other Chicago cops were implicated in a jewelry theft ring, specifically they sold the license plate numbers and whereabouts of jewelry salesmen to their favorite armed robbers.  Mayor Daley II states that it is too early to jump to conclusions.  The ringleader had just gotten some top cop prize last week; and the FBI has tapped his phone for a year.  And I have it as District Commander LeRoy O'Shields. Please, somebody else keep track of all this.  I believe my ear has worn out.

980328, Washington, DC, WBBM.  The FBI reports that there has been a recent (6 month) large increase in police corruption. Detroit, Cleveland, New Orleans, Chicago were mentioned.  FOP spokesman says that this is merely because the police are getting better at policing themselves.

980330, , Jerry Meldon, THE CONSORTIUM.  According to the CIA, the CIA is definitely NOT involved in drug trafficking.  More in WORMSCAN.&4

980413, Miami, FL, Reuters.  Attorneys Michael Abbell and William Moran are on trial again for aiding and abetting or some such cocaine smuggling.  They hung the jury on 971028.  More in WORNSCAN.&4

980425, Columbia, SA, ABC.  The tail of a story about heroin being planted ON customs.

980401, Muskogee, OK, World Pub.  Former Marshall County Sheriff Decco Dewayne Baxter's compatriots Lloyd Henry Johnson, 46, of Madill and John Wayne Cooper, 42, of Poteau pleaded guilty to methamphetamine production and distribution.  More in WORMSCAN.&4

980501, New York City, NY, DRCNet #42.  Police, acting on a confidential informant's tip, broke into the home and ignited a stun grenade in the front hall of Basil Shorter.  No drugs were found, but police explained that sometimes drug dealers operate out of homes without the owner's knowledge.  This is the fourth time in three months for NYC Finest.  More in WORMSCAN.&4

980519, Mexico, Daily Brief
* The U.S.'s Dept. of the Treasury and the Dept. of Justice have  announced indictments of officials at several large Mexican   banks in connection with the laundering of Cali and Juarez drug cartel profits.
- the agencies' investigations have resulted in the arrest of 112 people and the seizing of about $35 million.
More in WORMSCAN.&4

980521, Chicago, IL, AP.  Cops convicted of racketeering, conspiracy, extortion, etc for robbing drug dealers who were also FBI.  Edward ``Pacman'' Jackson (27), a member of an elite tactical unit, was accused of being a high-ranking leader of the Conservative Vice Lords street gang.  M.L.  Moore, and Alex Ramos, and James Young also convicted, and three others pleaded guilty.  More in WORMSCAN.&4

980615, Trenton, Todd County, KY, KNN.  Deputy Sheriff Larry Heitz (?Randy Heis) was caught in April by Kentucky State Police distributing marijuana while on duty, in uniform, and armed. More assorted drugs were found in his home in the Friendly Acres Trailer Park in Trenton.  Arraignment today.

980721, Miami, FL, AP.  Lawyers Michael Abbell and William Moran found guilty of conspiracy.  They were accused of going too far in the services of their clients, the Cali Cocaine Cartel.  This is the second trial.  Lawyer Moran disappeared when he got wind of the verdict.  More in WORMSCAN.&4 See 980413, 971028, 950606

980716, Mexico, pshe.  Most of the senior officers of a US-trained, elite anti-drugs police unit in Mexico have failed a polygraph (lie-detector) test and may have ties to drug traffickers, The New York Times said.  US authorities are beginning to assess the damage wrought by corrupt investigators, who have been working closely with their US counterparts since last year, US officials told the daily.  (AFP)

980731, Trenton, NJ, AP.  Undercover Narcotics Officer Christopher Kerins pleads guilty to seven armed bank robberies. This to pay for his heroin habit.  He also pulled several armed robberies while at a police convention at Cincinnati, where he was caught.  See 960502.  More in WORMSCAN.&4

980804, Mexico City, Mexico, NYT.  Raul Salinas drug money traced by Swiss.  But the funny part is that the Americans NEVER could make any case against Salinas.  See 951205.  More in WORMSCAN.&4

981005, Charleston, Missouri, WFLW, 12N.  Five men from Kentucky and a Missouri landowner were arrested for marijuana production. Anthony Seratto, Monty Lyle Loveless, Lester Daley, and Hank Butler of Albany, KY; Michael Gross of Kettle near Burkesville, KY, and David Dixon, the landowner in Charleston, Missouri, were arrested in connection with two fields of marijuana in Mississippi County, Missouri.  Hank Butler and Lester Daley were arrested in Clinton County, KY, and waived extradition to Missouri last Friday.  The count was 1082 mature plants in one field and 211 in the other.  Worth was claimed at 1.3 million dollars.

On 911002 Albany City Police Officer Tony Seratto was arrested by the FBI in the Stonecipher marijuana clearinghouse bust.  He was sentenced to 70 months in prison for marijuana trafficking on 920829.  Looks like it took only two months to get caught again, assuming that he did not receive special dispensation for having faithfully served 14 years enforcing The Law in Albany, Kentucky.

981107, Chicago, IL, WBBM.  Ford Heights Police Officers Odell Boxey and Kerwin Hall are convicted of protecting cocaine dealers.  Etc.