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- NATION, Page 25American NotesCRIMEA Sad Day for Detroit's Finest
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- When Detroit police chief William Hart and his former deputy
- were indicted last February for stealing $2.6 million from the
- city, it seemed that the troubled department had nowhere to go
- but up. Wrong. Last week, after an eight-month FBI
- investigation, 11 current and former police officers and five
- civilians were charged in a scheme to provide protection for
- drug dealers and money launderers. Among those arrested: Mayor
- Coleman Young's niece Cathy Volsan-Curry and her father, Willie
- Clyde Volsan Jr. The pair allegedly introduced the cops to
- undercover FBI agents posing as drug dealers.
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- The FBI, which videotaped the sting operation, claims that
- police officers protected seven air shipments of cocaine and
- laundered money, besides escorting the fake drug dealers around
- Detroit in police cars. "This is a sad day," said police chief
- Stanley Knox. "It's only a few people, but it's going to hurt
- everybody."
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