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A Times Editorial To tell the truth It is, at a minimum, what we expect of our law enforcement officers. An FHP trooper's testimony that he and other officers routinely misled courts on arrest reports should prompt a federal investigation. © St. Petersburg Times, published January 12, 2000 Few things are as sacrosanct as the integrity of the courts. The testimony of a Florida Highway Patrol trooper that he and other law officers misled the courts on arrest reports as a matter of routine raises the alarming prospect that an untold number of defendants were denied their rights to lawful ...

Trooper: Partial truth helps FBI By SARAH HUNTLEY of The Tampa Tribune -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TAMPA - A state trooper testifies he and other officers try to protect federal agents by misleading state judges. Florida Highway Patrol troopers have intentionally misled state judges by routinely telling them partial stories and filing incomplete reports in federal drug cases, according to a trooper's testimony Tuesday. Members of the highway patrol's elite drug interdiction teams do that to conceal the involvement of the FBI in traffic-related drug arrests, said Trooper Douglas Strickland. The goal, he said, is to protect undercover agents andal informants. But defense ...

Subject: FREEDOM HAS A PRICE TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, HE LIVED ALL ALONE, IN A ONE BEDROOM HOUSE MADE OF PLASTER AND STONE. I HAD COME DOWN THE CHIMNEY WITH PRESENTS TO GIVE, AND TO SEE JUST WHO IN THIS HOME DID LIVE. I LOOKED ALL ABOUT, A STRANGE SIGHT I DID SEE, NO TINSEL, NO PRESENTS, NOT EVEN A TREE. NO STOCKING BY MANTLE, JUST BOOTS FILLED WITH SAND, ON THE WALL HUNG PICTURES OF FAR DISTANT LANDS. WITH MEDALS AND BADGES, AWARDS OF ALL KINDS, A SOBER THOUGHT CAME THROUGH MY MIND. FOR THIS HOUSE WAS DIFFERENT, ...

17 are charged with violating Brady gun law By SARAH LUECK © St. Petersburg Times, published June 17, 1999 TAMPA -- Seventeen people were indicted Wednesday on charges they violated the Brady gun law by lying about criminal records when trying to buy firearms. It marked the single largest roundup of people charged with Brady law violations undertaken by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Tampa, spokesman Monte Richardson said. "We want to send the message that if you have prior violent felony convictions and try to buy a gun, you will be subject to prosecution," Richardson said. The charges were ...