Federal prosecutors have announced the indictment and arrest of 20 people — most of them current or former law enforcement officers — in the Mississippi Delta region for allegedly conspiring with Mexican drug cartels to smuggle narcotics into the United States, as reported by The Gateway Pundit.
U.S. Attorney Clay Joyner for the Northern District of Mississippi made the announcement during a press conference on Thursday, describing the charges as “a monumental betrayal of public trust.”
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“We’re here today to talk about some incredibly serious allegations that mark a monumental betrayal of public trust, to announce the indictment and arrest of 20 individuals, most of them law enforcement officers in the Mississippi Delta region,” Joyner said.
“The indictments generally allege the taking of bribes to attempt to aid and abet drug trafficking, as well as associated crimes.”
According to federal court documents, the indictments stem from a multi-year FBI operation targeting widespread corruption among law enforcement officers in the region. Of the 20 individuals charged, 14 were current or former law enforcement officers, and six were civilian accomplices.
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Investigators allege that the defendants accepted bribes ranging from $20,000 to $37,000 in exchange for providing protection to what they believed were large shipments of illegal narcotics being transported through the Mississippi Delta.
The “traffickers” they assisted were actually undercover FBI agents.
Joyner said the officers and their co-conspirators participated in a network of corruption that reached across multiple counties in Mississippi and into Tennessee.
“The first indictment that I’ll talk about involves a conspiracy whereby law enforcement officers and their accomplices are alleged to have agreed to provide safe passage for illegal narcotics and drug proceeds through the Mississippi Delta region, and ultimately, on the last of those runs, into Memphis itself,” Joyner explained.
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“They did this in return for bribe payments — for money. They are also indicted for related firearms offenses and, of course, individual counts related to specific runs throughout the Mississippi Delta.”
FBI Deputy Director Andrew Bailey condemned the defendants, saying their actions eroded public confidence in law enforcement.
“They betrayed the trust that the public placed in them, disgraced the badge and undermined the hard work of good law enforcement officers across this state and region,” Bailey said.
The Justice Department confirmed that all defendants were taken into federal custody this week and are expected to appear before a U.S. magistrate judge in the coming days. The case remains under active investigation.
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