Supporters urge light sentence for former officer (WOD)

Indy Star ^

[Stew Padasso]

MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) -- A judge sentenced a former police officer to 12 years in prison for selling cocaine from his patrol car, despite the urgings of supporters who said the officer had already been punished enough.

Delaware Circuit Court Judge Richard Dailey told 41-year-old Tyrone W. Haskins during a two-hour hearing Thursday that his crime "strikes at the very core of public confidence in law enforcement."

[Stew Padasso]

fyi

[headsonpikes]

Gee, the guy was "publicly embarassed". What more to the anti-cop rabble want?

It's not as if he's some lowlife civilian.

Shame about the pension, though.

[THEUPMAN]

another victim of the wod ......thats a shame

[joesnuffy]

Poor "Tyrone" hope he survives the joint being a cop...will be twice as tough on him...
Now if they would only prosecute the rich and famous and politicians with as much vigor

[Protagoras]

This kind of thing happened during the first prohibition as well.

[steve50]

Wasn't there a thread on here a couple days ago with an LEO supporting shooting drug dealers on sight?

[j_tull]

He was suspended for 20 days in 1997 after cocaine was found in his patrol car and he tested positive on a drug test.

And kept his job? Not much hypocrisy there, eh?

[toothless]

"Listen to me and understand this: A man is not
defiled by what goes into his mouth, but by what
comes out of it."
Matthew 15:11

"The voters in this country
should not be expected to decide
which medicines are safe and effective."
Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey

"If people let government decide
which foods they eat and medicines they take,
their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state
as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."
Thomas Jefferson

"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of
temperance. It is a species of intemperance within
itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in
that it attempts to control a man's appetite by
legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are
not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the
very principles upon which our government was
founded."
Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), U.S. President.
Speech, 18 Dec. 1840, to Illinois House of
Representatives

"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been
lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For
nothing is more destructive of respect for the
government and the law of the land than passing laws
which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that
the dangerous increase of crime in this country is
closely connected with this."
Albert Einstein, "My First Impression of the U.S.A.",
1921

"I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause
of temperence back twenty years; because it has
substituted an ineffective campaign of force for
an effective campaign of education; because it has
replaced comparatively uninjurious light wines and
beers with the worst kind of hard liquor and bad liquor;
because it has increased drinking not only among men but
has extended drinking to women and even children."
William Randolph Hearst,
initially a supporter of Prohibition,
explaining his change of mind in 1929.
From "Drink: A Social History of America"
by Andrew Barr (1999), p. 239.

"Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s
and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's
alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does. Trying
to wage war on 23 million Americans who are obviously
very committed to certain recreational activities is
not going to be any more successful than Prohibition was."
--US District Judge James C. Paine,
addressing the Federal Bar Association in Miami;
November, 1991

"There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that
authorizes the federal government to wage war against
the citizens of the United States, no matter how
well-meaning the intent. The Bill of Rights means just
as much today, as it did on the day it was written.
And its protections are just as valid and just as
important to freedom today, as they were to our
Founders two hundred years ago. The danger of the drug
war is that it erodes away those rights. Once the
fourth amendment is meaningless, it's just that much
easier to erode away the first and then the second,
etc. Soon we'll have no rights at all. " Jim Robinson,
5/9/01 155

"Narcotics police are an enormous, corrupt international
bureaucracy ... and now fund a coterie of researchers
who provide them with 'scientific support' ... fanatics
who distort the legitimate research of others. ... The
anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies,
undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem,
depriving the sick of needed help, and suckering
well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents."
William F. Buckley,
Commentary in The National Review,
April 29, 1983, p. 495

"I am so tired of all the arguments for and against
legalizing. It should be legal because this is
America. People that claim anything else should never
be allowed to claim they value freedom and liberty
without being laughed at in the face."

59 posted on 02/14/2003 2:29 PM EST by ks2papa (I Love
Freedom More Than You)

"If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution
inhibit the government's ability to govern the people,
we should look to limit those guarantees."
President Bill Clinton, August 12, 1993

[hadaclueonce]

wonder what he did to tick off his "fellow brothers in blue" so they would not "cover" him with an alibi?

[Stew Padasso]

"Wasn't there a thread on here a couple days ago with an LEO supporting shooting drug dealers on sight?"

I was hoping someone would bring that up. There were a lot of tough talkers on that thread.

*****
"I'd shoot drug dealers..."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/backroom/844270/posts
*****

Can you imagine the police lining up their own and shooting them in the head, while their families look on.

[hadaclueonce]

nah, that would be an accident, no billed

[Hemingway's Ghost]

And the hits just keep on coming . . .

PS: How long 'til this thread gets Smokey Backroomed?

Fall River officer pleads guilty to perjury, witness tampering

Barry Pacheco's job as a patrolman for the Fall River Police Department was to keep drug dealers out of the city, and yesterday he agreed to serve a federal prison term for doing just that.

The problem, federal prosecutors said, was that Pacheco did it on behalf of another drug dealer, accepting $2,500 in return and then lying about it to a grand jury.

Pacheco, 40, of Swansea, pleaded guilty in US District Court yesterday to perjury, obstruction of justice, and witness tampering in connection with a favor he and his then-partner Ronald Medeiros did for alleged marijuana dealer Jeffrey Hanoud several years ago.

Assistant US Attorney Brian Kelly told US District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns that Hanoud had lost a large shipment of marijuana and was afraid that his New York drug supplier would hurt him. When the supplier came to town, though, Pacheco and Medeiros ''scared him into not returning,'' Kelly said.

The perjury charges stem from a 2001 grand jury investigation.

Both Hanoud and Medeiros are now government witnesses, Kelly said. Medeiros, who wore a hidden recording device wire and taped incriminating conversations with Pacheco, has not been charged.

This story ran on page B4 of the Boston Globe on 2/21/2003.

© Copyright 2003 Globe Newspaper Company.

[archy]

How long 'til this thread gets Smokey Backroomed?

Or pulled, if a crooked Houston cop is involved.

-archy-/-

[Stew Padasso]

These 'bad apple' stories seem to be a little more frequent.

[Stew Padasso]

Anti-cop? How about anti corruption and hypocracy. These stories are all too frequent and disgusting.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Asshole gives good law enforcement people a blackeye and starts the anti-cop crusade again.

The shock, however, is realizing how many stories like this you can find just by reading the newspaper every day . . .

[IMHO]

"We think he should be treated like anyone else," said defense attorney Jack Quirk. "I don't think he should be punished for his position."

This is so offensive on so many levels, but here are just three of them:

1. If he is shot by someone, His Position results in a far worse punishment for the offender.

2. When he testifies in court His Position means that his word is presumed to be truthful by the courts.

3. He is tasked with enforcing these laws - How many people has he put in Jail for this crime?

I tend to think that hypocracy in Law Enforcement should be a Capital Offence. That being said, I am against drug laws, and this situation is just one of the reasons, but while they exist, I say, throw the book at him!

[Stew Padasso]

"How many people has he put in Jail for this crime?"

Probably the ones who wouldn't play ball.

I wonder if it is possible for the public to pull an arrest record for officers? Cap'n, is that kind of info accessible to Joe Public?

[coloradan]

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