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| Former NC law enforcement and corrections officers plead to drug conspiracy charges |
| By newsobserver.com- Anne Blythe |
| Published: 02/11/2016 |
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RALEIGH A federal drug sting operation that started almost three years ago with a tip to the Halifax County’s sheriff’s office ended on Tuesday with former law enforcement officers and corrections officers entering guilty pleas to drug conspiracy charges. The drug investigation, which began in April 2013, ended in April 2015 with federal charges filed against seven current or former Northampton County deputies, three state corrections officers, a Northampton County emergency dispatcher, a Windsor police officer, a former Weldon police officer, a Raleigh resident and a Virginia corrections officer. The accused were arrested after being picked up at the Halifax-Northampton Regional Airport and a Rocky Mount warehouse. The arrests were announced at a news conference in which top federal prosecutors and state and federal law enforcement agents offered a glimpse of what they described as a coordinated attempt to move what the accused thought were large shipments of cocaine and heroin through North Carolina to other East Coast states. Read More. |
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