Planting evidence
Why you never agree to a search of your vehicle:
A former Haskell police officer was found guilty after pleading no contest to fabrication of physical evidence charges.
Bill Glass resigned from the Haskell Police Department in March of 2010, saying allegations he’d planted methamphetamine in a car during a traffic stop were “baseless.” When the drugs were sent off for testing, a chemist at the lab traced them back to the officer.
December 22nd, 2011 at 11:09 am
I feel so much better now.
December 22nd, 2011 at 11:14 am
Come back with a warrant.
December 22nd, 2011 at 11:57 am
So, a police officer STEALS evidence from the evidence room: No charge. (that evidence room should be audited and every person in charge arrested if it isn’t 100%)
Presents false evidence and lies in a court of law: No Charge. (It’s a felony for you or me to present even a false insurance card to a clerk. And lying in court….well…..judges love that when citizens do it.)
Possesses drugs: No charge. (and it’s meth. Doesn’t the legislature hate meth? Don’t the judges and prosecutors consider it a modern scourge? Throw the book at ’em!)
Uses his state-granted authority to accuse an innocent person of a crime: No Charge.
Usually prosecutors file EVERY charge they can including coming back later and filing MORE charges after a deal is done. This guy got probation?
And what EXACTLY was done to make his victim whole?
His LEO commission is still intact.
December 22nd, 2011 at 12:00 pm
“This is very rare, I would say. First time I’ve ever seen it,” Boaz said.
I know how often does a cop go to jail for committing a crime right?
December 22nd, 2011 at 12:02 pm
Oh wait….
December 22nd, 2011 at 12:57 pm
@Robert
His LEO comission is not intact. He pled to a felony.
His victim is in jail on other charges.
No idea what the backstory is on this, or what his motivation would have been to plant evidence. He should have gotten jail time…I’m a little dissapointed with Texas.
December 22nd, 2011 at 3:38 pm
You know how you can tell a cop is lying?
He’s under oath.
December 22nd, 2011 at 5:06 pm
When you put that together with the Tenth Circuit ruling that says an officer can search you with out PC for “officer safety” and then use anything found to charge and convict you of a crime…
December 22nd, 2011 at 5:33 pm
Never trust a person who who is legally empowered to lie then swears to tell the truth about it later…
December 22nd, 2011 at 6:02 pm
This opens up some number of old cases, wherein our scoff-law cop nailed people after searching them and “finding” various illegal things or substances on them.
December 22nd, 2011 at 7:31 pm
I’ve been a cop for 37 years. I’M OUTRAGED this criminal (for that is what he is; not scoff-law cop, ex officer or anything else) isn’t spending the next 10-15 years in the worst jail in Texas (with someone he sent up for a cell mate). Law Enforcement is hard enough to do. A staggering number of people think we’re lazy, corrupt, (take your pick of any other name). This makes it worse. Contrary to what people think, we hate corrupt cops worse than you do.
December 22nd, 2011 at 10:49 pm
Mike V.,
You may personally hate corrupt cops *as much* as I do, but on the evidence cops in general don’t hate them enough to send them to jail where they belong.
Despite your protestations, there IS a blue wall of silence protecting these thugs.
December 23rd, 2011 at 7:32 pm
Mariner,
We don’t send them to jail, all we can do is charge them. Sending them to jail is for the DA’s and Judges. We had a crooked guy in my current agency once upon a time. He got 5 years, left to us, it would have been longer.