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Two former officers with a rural sheriff’s department pleaded guilty Thursday to charges that they took part in a scheme involving their boss and 10 colleagues to sell drugs seized from criminals.

The pair were among 20 people indicted in October in the investigation of corruption and racketeering conspiracy.

Former deputy David Allan King pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering conspiracy and drug conspiracy. James Alden Vaught, a former sergeant, pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy.

King faces up to 40 years in prison and Vaught 20 years, but the sentences could be lowered if they testify in other cases.

Henry County Sheriff H. Franklin Cassell stepped down after he was accused of looking the other way as officers sold drugs seized in criminal investigations and stole guns and other evidence for personal use and resale. He has pleaded not guilty to charges of impeding federal agents’ investigation and money laundering.

Vaught, 33, pleaded guilty because he has “a contrite heart,” said his attorney, Bruce Welch.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Bondurant said Vaught, who agreed to cooperate with investigators, was paid by the ring for use of a house he owned for drug distribution.

King, 49, was once in charge of the vice unit and had been a school resource officer with the department. Bondurant said King falsified destruction orders for drugs seized by the department and he and other officers then resold them.

Charges against the other defendants include racketeering conspiracy, narcotics distribution, weapons counts, obstruction of justice and perjury. One other former deputy and one of the seven civilians charged in the case have pleaded guilty.

Prosecutors are investigating what they say is a pattern of police brutality in a popular Long Island summer destination, including one claim that officers attacked a tourist during a spat over a littering ticket.Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota said he has sent out subpoenas and is preparing a case to be presented to a grand jury after tracking complaints about excessive force and other misconduct involving the Ocean Beach Police Department on popular Fire Island since 2003.

“This is very, very disturbing,” Spota told The Associated Press on Wednesday. “I have never seen anything on a scale like this. Many of the reported incidents are turning out to be true.”

He said he stepped up his investigation after a former Manhattan software executive sued the village and its police last year in federal court, seeking $22 million.

Samuel Gilberd, who has since moved to Los Angeles, says he was repeatedly kicked by Ocean Beach police officers and needed to be hospitalized after a dispute over a littering ticket they gave him, said his attorney, D. Carl Lustig III.

At least seven lawsuits have been filed against the police department since 1995.

Ocean Beach is sometimes called the Land of No because of odd ordinances banning conduct such as eating cookies on public walkways. There are two full-time officers and 24-part time officers to police 138 year-round residents, with up to 6,000 day-trippers in the warmer months.

One plaintiff, Anthony Esposito, said police woke him in the middle of the night and “beat the daylights” out of him for staying in a room registered to a friend who had left the village. He said the case was settled for $15,000.

Ocean Beach Mayor Joseph Loeffler said his village has a “very good” police department.

“I think they do a very good job,” said Loeffler, who took office in July. “I think we have very few problems.”

A man who answered the phone at police department headquarters said no one would be available to speak about the accusations until Thursday.

Spota said that current and former Ocean Beach police officers, who patrol the area, are cooperating with the probe.

SOME 12,000 Iraqi policemen have been killed since Saddam Hussein was deposed, the country’s interior minister said late yesterday in Baghdad, as clashes, a suicide bomber and weekend explosions killed more than a dozen Iraqi officers and six US soldiers.

An FBI agent was killed Wednesday during a live-fire training exercise, the agency said.

Supervisory Special Agent Gregory J. Rahoi, 38, of Wisconsin, was shot Wednesday during the exercise at Fort A.P. Hill, a sprawling Army base about an hour south of Washington.

Rahoi was flown to Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, where he later was pronounced dead, the FBI said in a release.

Rahoi joined the FBI in 1997 and had served with the agency’s Hostage Rescue Team for the past six years.

Fort A.P. Hill hosts about 60,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines annually at the 76,000-acre post’s live-fire ranges and other training facilities. Federal law enforcement agencies also use the facilities on a regular basis, the FBI said.

The last time someone died during live fire training at Fort A.P. Hill was in December 2000, said Ken Perrotte, a spokesman for the base.

The FBI and Army are investigating the incident.

TYLER, Texas

A one-time Texas drug agent described by his former boss as perhaps the best narcotics officer in the country plans to market a how-to video on concealing drugs and fooling police.

Barry Cooper, who has worked for small police departments in East Texas, plans to launch a Web site next week where he will sell his video, “Never Get Busted Again,” the Tyler Morning Telegraph reported in its online edition Thursday.

A promotional video says Cooper will show viewers how to “conceal their stash,” “avoid narcotics profiling” and “fool canines every time.”

Cooper, who said he favors the legalization of marijuana, made the video in part because he believes the nation’s fight against drugs is a waste of resources. Busting marijuana users fills up prisons with nonviolent offenders, he said.

“My main motivation in all of this is to teach Americans their civil liberties and what drives me in this is injustice and unfairness in our system,” Cooper told the newspaper.

Cooper said his Web site should be operating by Tuesday.

As a drug officer, Cooper said, he made more than 800 drug arrests and seized more than 50 vehicles and $500,000 in cash and assets.

“He was even better than he says he was,” said Tom Finley, Cooper’s former boss on a West Texas drug task force and now a private investigator in Midland. “He was probably the best narcotics officer in the state and maybe the country during his time with the task force.”

News of the video has angered authorities, including Richard Sanders, an agent with the Tyler Drug Enforcement Agency. Sanders said he plans to investigate whether the video violates any laws.

“It outrages me personally as I’m sure it does any officer that has sworn an oath to uphold the laws of this state, and nation,” Sanders said. “It is clear that his whole deal is to make money and he has found some sort of scheme, but for him to go to the dark side and do this is infuriating.”

Smith County Deputy Constable Mark Waters, a narcotics officer, said the video is insulting to law enforcement officials.

“This is a slap in the face to all that we do to uphold the laws and keep the public safe,” he said.

City of Chicago officials are preparing to settle a police brutality case that has generated no stories in the mainstream media — but which watchers in the blogosphere say threatened to expose widespread patterns of abuse in the Chicago Police Department.Diane Bond said she was physically accosted and sexually humiliated on many occasions by a special team of officers assigned to her building in the Stateway Gardens housing complex.

The plight of Bond and her son was chronicled by blogger Jamie Kalven. City lawyers had a companion lawsuit going against Kalven to get a judge to force him to turn over all his notes of interviews with everyone in the housing project — even on issues unrelated to Bond’s case.

That potential First Amendment showdown was averted when the city and Bond’s lawyers reached a tentative settlement of $150,000 last week. That figure must be approved by the Chicago City Council. The settlement will end the city’s action against Kalven.

In the course of the lawsuit, Bond’s lawyer, Craig Futterman, a public interest lawyer with the University of Chicago’s Mandel Legal Aid Clinic, obtained extensive records of the Police Department’s disciplining of officers in response to brutality complaints.

As Kalven reported on his blog, the numbers show that of the 10,150 complaints of excessive force, illegal arrest, illegal searches, racial and sexual abuse filed against Chicago officers between 2002 and 2004, only 18 times were officers suspended for seven days or more.

That means an officer accused of abuse has a 99.8 percent chance of getting off without any “meaningful discipline,” Futterman said. The figure exposes as a lie the department’s attempts to portray the abuse under former Police Cmdr. Jon Burge as ancient history and practices as having been reformed, Futterman said.”They’ve been engaged in a pattern of abuse against public housing residents on the South Side,” Futterman said. “There are officers with 50 or more complaints who were never disciplined.”

In Bond’s case, in April of 2003, an officer put a gun to her head and demanded to know where she lived, the lawsuit said. He and a team of officers took her keys and forced their way into her home, beat her son, forced her son to beat another person, threatened to plant drugs on her if she did not follow his instructions, and then had her undress for him so he could stare at her private parts, according to the lawsuit.

That was just the first of several incidents by the same group of officers, according to Bond’s lawsuit. Bond was never charged with any crime.

City Law Department spokeswoman Jennifer Hoyle confirmed that attorneys have reached a tentative settlement in the case.

Asked about the 2002-2004 numbers Kalven and Futterman say show insufficient discipline against officers, Chicago Police Dept. spokeswoman Monique Bond said, “One of the things Supt. Cline has put in place since 2003 is a very aggressive intervention program to address misconduct. We’re being very proactive.”

Two Palm Bay police cars exploded and burst into flames with officers inside. The department has pulled squad cars off the street before another one ignites.

A total of seven cars in the department are affected. Twice in the past week, Palm Bay police officers have had to act as their own firefighters after the fuel systems on their cruisers exploded. While only seven have been affected, thousands of the same Impalas are used as police cars statewide.

“The flames were just coming up, just as we were hearing the big bang,” said Officer Tina Hensel.

Hensel said she never expected her police cruiser’s engine would become a flame thrower of sorts earlier this week.

“It was being fueled by fire, so the flames were distinctly red. You could tell there was an accelerant,” she said.

At the Palm Bay maintenance shop, it wasn’t the first time it’s happened. In fact, it was the second time in a week a cruiser’s engine has essentially exploded into flames. Both times, police officers became firefighters. Fortunately, each cruiser is equipped with a fire extinguisher.

“The danger factor is that the fuel regulator is defective, dumping too much fuel into the combustion chamber. If there’s too much spark, then the fuel line blows off, further fueling the fire,” explained city fleet manager John Cady.

Both fires happened as shifts began. That was fortunate because the incidents could have easily occurred while officers were responding to emergency calls.

Two of the cruisers have already been repaired. The problem was a tiny pressure valve that General Motors knows about and they paid for repairs. The part has been recalled and there are thousands of consumer versions of the same engine still on the street.

The pressure valve is in some cars that have a 3.8-liter V-6 engine. That includes the 1998-2000 Buick Park Avenue and Lesabre and Pontiac Bonnevilles, the 1998-1999 Oldsmobile 88 and the 2000 Chevy Monte Carlo and Impala. The cars are not involved in a recall, but are part of a bulletin. Call your dealer if you own one of the cars.

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Huntington Beach police have stopped hiding guns in cars of people they pull over — a way to test how rookie officers search a suspect’s vehicle — because “it’s probably not the way we should be operating,” a department spokesman said Tuesday.

The training practice was revealed when a driver who was stopped Jan. 3 on suspicion of hit and run complained that an officer had tossed a loaded handgun into the trunk of his car. The pistol was discovered by a rookie officer who searched the car while the driver, Tom Cox, watched.

Cox, a construction superintendent, said he was standing about eight feet away when Officer Brian Knorr walked up, opened the trunk and tossed in a snub-nosed revolver with a rubber grip.

“It bounced off the bottom, hit the back of the trunk, then theleft side and came to rest toward the back,” said Cox, 45. “Knorrthen closed the trunk, and this young kid comes along later andsearches the trunk and finds the gun.”

Cox said he was terrified that the officers had planted theweapon.

“I knew that wasn’t proper procedure,” he said. “They later saidit was a training exercise, but I believe they were playing a prankon the young kid or me.”

In November, he was convicted of reckless driving, DUI and hit andrun. He will be sentenced next week.

Cox said his father was a San Diego reserve officer for 17 years,and he considered himself “pro-law enforcement.”

Police spokesman Lt. Craig Junginger said that in August, Coxfiled a complaint with the department against Knorr and anotherofficer. Using a loaded handgun in the exercise is against departmentpolicy. Knorr, a senior officer, was cleared because “trainingofficers didn’t fully understand the policy against using loadedweapons,” Junginger said.

The OC Weekly first reported the incident last month.

Junginger said that although he had been a Huntington Beachofficer for 20 years, he was unaware of that type of trainingexercise.

He said he learned that trainers typically used unloaded guns andthat this was the only time a loaded pistol was used. Chief Ken Smallput a stop to the practice last week, the spokesman said.

“It might just be a few officers doing this type of thing,”Junginger said. “How long it’s been going on, we don’t know.Obviously, it was brought to our attention by the complaint filed byCox. We conducted an investigation and found it’s probably not theway we should be operating.”

Retired Los Angeles Police Officer Bob Stresak, now spokesman forthe California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training,said hiding firearms, especially loaded ones, in civilian cars wasnot included among the training courses offered by the group, whichsets the training standards for more than 600 law enforcementagencies and 90,000 officers.

VANCOUVER

More than 80 RCMP officers in B.C. have been found guilty of misconduct by the Mounties’ internal affairs unit over the past two years for offences ranging from falsifying expense claims to having sex with a prostitute, the Vancouver Sun has learned.

In July, The Sun filed an Access to Information request to the RCMP asking for a list of all internal investigations launched into misconduct by B.C. officers since Jan. 1, 2005. The request asked only for those reports in which the allegations were substantiated.

In reply, the Mounties provided a list of 81 investigations against its B.C. members.

RCMP spokesman Cpl. Pierre Lemaitre said in an interview that while 81 cases of misconduct may seem high, it’s only a tiny fraction of the 5,000 RCMP officers working in B.C.

The list of substantiated investigations provided includes:

- An officer who engaged “the services of a known sex-trade worker.”

- An officer who used “foul and racist language” while issuing a speeding ticket.

- An officer who held onto an exhibit, a firearm, for “personal use.”

- An officer who tried to pressure another officer to do a favour for his brother-in-law, arrested for impaired driving.

- An officer who used “excessive force” against a suspect.

Insp. Paul Darbyshire, head of the RCMP’s Professional Standards unit said none of the 81 officers have been fired. Most received counselling or a reprimand on their file.

However, 13 of the 81 officers are awaiting disciplinary hearings at which they could be subject to dismissal.

The RCMP’s handling of internal investigations was in the news earlier this month after Const. Justin Harris — accused of having sex with underage prostitutes in Prince George, B.C. — had the disciplinary charges against him thrown out because the Mounties took too long to bring their case against him. The investigation into Harris’ conduct predates the list of cases provided.

Some of the allegations included in that list are so serious that they have already resulted in criminal charges against the officers involved.

Adam Jonathan Clarke, a former officer in Langley, B.C. was charged in June with two counts of child luring for allegedly using a community police office computer to convince a 12- and 15-year-old girl to produce child pornography for him.

And in December, B.C. Mountie James Douglas Macleod was charged with sexual assault after allegedly raping a woman at a Super Bowl party in 2005.