Four police officers arrested in Chicago
By MIKE ROBINSON Associated Press Writer Arizona Republic January 28, 2005 CHICAGO (AP) -- Four veteran police officers conspired with drug dealers to steal money, drugs and guns from competing dealers, authorities said in announcing nine arrests. Other officers also were part of the conspiracy, authorities said Thursday. "If I were the other officers, I would be picking up the phone and calling us because we intend to get to the bottom of it," U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald said, suggesting that any officers with guilty knowledge could help themselves by becoming witnesses. The four officers have been suspended without pay and the department would immediately start proceedings to fire them, Police Superintendent Philip J. Cline said. Five other people, allegedly drug dealers, also were arrested. All nine were charged with conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine. The arrests resulted from an investigation by Chicago police investigators and the FBI that involved "extensive use of physical and electronic surveillance" of the officers, authorities said. The officers, working with their accomplices, allegedly staged traffic stops and broke into apartments to steal from their targets. At one of the traffic stops last July, the court complaint said, an undercover police officer was pulled over. During court appearances Thursday, eight of the nine men were ordered held in custody until bond hearings Monday. An initial court appearance for the ninth man was not scheduled immediately. The attorneys for the eight men who appeared in court declined to comment on the charges, which carry sentences from 10 years to life in prison. C 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Learn more about our <http://apdigitalnews.com/privacy.html> Privacy Policy. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Take a look at donorschoose.org, an excellent charitable web site for anyone who cares about public education! http://us.click.yahoo.com/_OLuKD/8WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
