Deputy charged with buying drugs -- in uniform Associated Press Published on: 06/08/05 SPRINGFIELD, Ga. - A sheriff's deputy arrested by her own co-workers has been indicted on felony drug and gun charges. Former Effingham County deputy Melinda Stewart Johnson was arrested in March and charged with planning to deal marijuana. She also was charged with possession of a firearm - her deputy's handgun - during the commission of a crime. Johnson is charged with buying marijuana during a sting operation conducted by Effingham County deputies. Authorities say she was on patrol - in uniform and in a marked sheriff's department car - when the deal went down. Johnson had been with the department for about seven months when drug agents got a tip that she was buying marijuana. Deputies arranged the sting operation in the parking lot of a grocery store in the small community of Guyton. She was fired shortly after her March 8 arrest. ------------------------ 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: osint@yahoogroups.com 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/
