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WORMSCAN.TXT  Updated: 940104


No attempt has been made to note every news item. These are simply those
cases which have come to my attention in the everyday news.

Additions, comments, criticisms, clarifications, or corrections (even
mispellings and typograhpical errors) should be directed to:
David P Beiter, Rt 72 Bx 66-G, Delta KY 42613.  606/376-3137.

All items are Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky, United States of America,
unless otherwise specified.

Sources include:

The Wayne County Outlook, Monticello, KY.
The Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY.
WFLW, WKYM & WMKZ, radio, Monticello, KY.
WSEK & WSFC, radio, Somerset, KY.
WBBM, radio, Chicago, IL.
WBKY, WUKY, radio, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
WEKU, radio, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY.
WKYU, radio, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
WHAS, radio, Louisville, KY.
WLAP, radio, Lexington, KY.
KET = Kentucky Educational Television rebroadcast of WKYT, WLEX, Lexington or
      WHAS, WLKY, WAVE, Louisville or WTVQ, Hazard. local news.
CBC = Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
CNN = Cable News Network radio news.
KNN = Kentucky News Network & KYnet = The Kentucky Net.

All times are Central Time, even if the broadcast originates in a different
time zone.  Dates (YYMMDD) in the header are generally the date of the news
item, not the date of the action.


810000.  Marion County, KY.  Officials in the Kentucky state government became
suspicious of cash excesses in banks in Marion County, KY.  An investigation
led to the purchase of the Bank [of Lebanon?  (Marion County Seat)] by a
cabinet official [The Kentucky State Secretary of Commerce?] Needless to say,
no evidence of marijuana cultivation or other illicit activities was
uncovered.  Al Cross, reporter for The Courier-Journal, personal communication.

820000.  Hart County, Kentucky.  Bowling Green, KY.  "Thirteen arraigned in
marijuana case" in Bowling Green, KY after raids on Hart County KY marijuana
fields on 26 July.  Donnie Nunn, former Hart County KY Sheriff, Joe Dunagan,
and Tm Chaney, all of Horse Cave; Hulen Russell, Charles Richardson, Jr, and
Gary Coffee, all of Hardyville; James Stanon [Stanton?], of Munfordville; James
Benningfield of Magnolia; Freeman Swartz of Summerville; and Randall Skaggs,
Neal Lnu, James K.  Mattingly, and James N.  Mattingly, of Lebanon.  Also Nunn,
Stanton, and Russell were indicted on charges of attempting to bribe two State
Police Officers, Ron West and Robert Sheldon, and Hart County Sheriff Daymond
Humphrey.  22,500 marijuana plants in five locations in Hart Co were
confiscated on 26 July and 8,000 on 29 July at another Hart Co site.  At the
time, this was the biggest marijuana raid in Kentucky history, valued at over
$12 million.  Newspaper clipping, Hart Co?  Jane Paquin, a neighbor to the
largest fields, personal communication.

841100.  In November 1984 FBI agents in Florida intercepted a shipment of 760
pounds of cocaine from Honduras and arrested a top-ranking Honduran officer,
Jose Bueso Rosa, for his role in a plot to overthrow and murder the President
of Honduras, to be financed by $10 million from the drug deal.  And from 1982
to 1986 a drugs-and-arms network which supplied the contras operated out of
Honduran airstrips, according to Jose Blandon, former aide to Manuel Noriega,
and ABC News.  After Bueso was convicted, Oliver North and six other
Administration officials pleaded for leniency in sentencing him.  They were
willing to overlook Bueso's association with drug smugglers because of his
valuable, unspecified services to U.  S.  policy makers.  The DEA denies that
it showed similar lenience toward the contras' patrons when it closed its
office in Tegucigalpa, Honduras between 1983 and 1988.  The Nation, May 7
1988, p634.

850912..  Andrew Thorton III, retired Lexington, Kentucky Police Department
Narcotics Officer, crash landed via parachute in suburban Knoxville TN with 79
pounds of cocaine.  Several other duffle bags of cocaine were found in the
Chattahoochee National Forest, totalling approximately 400 pounds.
ref:multiple news reports.  See 870112, 871123, 890225, 900820, 930409, Sally
Denton, The Bluegrass Conspiracy, Doubleday, 1990.

860220.  Rumors abound that the FBI had caught Joe Conn, former Wayne County,
KY Sheriff; Ralph Miniard, Monticello, KY Chief of Police; and Don Richardson,
local gas station operator.  They are alleged to have been caught loading
marijuana into an airplane owned by Nick Cooley, a local coal tycoon.  This
rumor sounded fresh, but there is also a rumor of letting Joe Conn serve out
his term as Sheriff, which would put it as last year.  Present Sheriff Jim Hill
would neither confirm nor deny, but eventually admitted that he had heard the
rumor.  He was not happy about my questioning.

860319.  Brenda Sexton at The Wayne County Outlook says that they tried three
times to check out the Joe Conn rumor at Federal Court in London, KY, but all
were negative.  She did not know the source of the rumors.  [It may have been
the local radio station.] Jim Hill, present Wayne County Sheriff, seemed very
agitated when I questioned him, did not want to talk and ran out of office.  On
860809 Donald Jones says that Conn, Miniard, and Richardson were caught
off-loading in northern Kentucky.  Carl Jones says that were caught on-loading
at Somerset airport.  Other sources have said that Joe Conn was caught
transporting marijuana three times, locally, northern Kentucky, and in Georgia.

860324.  Marion Campbell, Kentucky State Police Commissioner, is arrested for
extorting a one million dollar bribe from a cocaine smuggler (also an FBI
agent).  This was for airport landing rights in Morgan Co KY.  Several other
officials were arrested for assorted corruption: former Morgan County, Kentucky
Judge-Executive Gene Allen; Allen's son Steve; Morgan County, Kentucky Sheriff
Roger Benton; Coal Baron Titus Frederick; former Kentucky District Judge James
H Noble; former State Senator and former State Trooper Lester Burns, Jr; and
physician, Dr Bill Davis.  ref: "Operation Leviticus" of the FBI.  They weren't
even looking for drug smuggling!  The FBI thought they were looking at coal
money!!

860330.  The Whitley County Kentucky Sheriff, one other KY & 3 TN Sheriffs are
arrested for drug trafficking.  Assorted newscasts.

860619.  Kentucky State Police Detective, 19 year veteran of The Force, Joseph
Greenwall (Greenwald), age 41, of Loretto, Marion Co KY is arrested for
extorting $5000 to protect marijuana growers, after a two month investigation.
Arraignment is set for 27 June.  Ref: WLEX, CNN News.

870700, Playboy, p47.  NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana
Laws) has a list of approximately 300 public officials who have been involved
in drug crimes in the past three years.

860700.  Personal communication, John Ruehle, a Dade County, FL resident.  He
states that per capita drug trafficking arrests are greater among police than
among the general population in Miami and/or Dade Co FL.

860811.  76- 86?  Boston, MA.  Federal Grand Jury indictments have been handed
down for 10 police officers, including 2 current police chiefs & 1 former
chief, including Gerald Clemente, 52, retired Captain of Metropolitan District
Commission & Thomas Doherty, 45, former Medford Police Lieutenant, for police
exam theft & rigging of scores.  This was used to maneuver conspirators into
key positions to cover for crimes.  These include a $1.5 megabux bank robbery
at Medford, MA & cocaine trafficking from Tennessee in 84.  Thomas Doherty shot
Joseph Bangs, retired MDC police sergeant, 4 times but did not kill him.  Bangs
then squealed.  Various police are accused of assorted robberies, drug
trafficking, IRA gun trafficking.  Newsweek: August 11, 1986 p 24.

84-86.  Flint MI.  14 MI police officers indicted on drug charges. Sinsemilla
Tips v6#2p16.

86 TN.  East Tennessee Sheriffs' report. Scott County Tennessee Sheriff Marion
Carson & deputy Wayne Caldwell are charged by a Federal Grand jury with
conspiracy & selling methaqualone, marijuana, cocaine & diazapam. Claiborne
County Tennessee Sheriff Billy Wayne Smith & Juvenile Court Referee R. Jackson
Rose pleaded guilty to conspiring to take payoffs to protect gambling
operations. Since 82, The Sheriff of Cocke Co, TN Bobby Stinson; The Sheriff
of Roane Co, TN Gillis Narramore; The Sheriff of Union Co, TN Paul Hill; and
The Sheriff of Anderson Co, TN Dennis O Trotter also have been arrested for
drug trafficking.

860812, Minneapolis, MN, CNN, 11:35 PM..Small amounts of speed, marijuana, and
LSD were found in various police cruisers.  Marijuana was also found in the
central garage locker.  Speed was found hidden in a steering wheel.  Apparently
the illegal drugs were for personal use, not resale.  Chief Bozo says that he
is still opposed to drug testing for cops, but not for ordinary citizens.

860813, Mexico.  Victor Cortez, DEA agent in Guadalajara was tortured by 11
Mexican state police officers in an attempt to gain information on
collaborators.  Ref: Newsweek Aug 25, 86, p42.  The Courier-Journal, 21 Aug 86,
p2.

860909, Monitor Radio.  26 Sheriffs in GA & TN have been arrested & convicted
for drug trafficking.  Ryan Freemantle, author, The Fix

860924.  In the 77th Precinct of Brooklyn, NY, thirteen cops have been arrested
for shaking down drug dealers, and reselling drugs, mostly crack.  Ref: CNN
News, WBKY, 11:30PM CDT.  Paul Harvey, 9 Oct 86, quotes Newsday, as saying that
thirteen cops sledgehammered their way into drug dealers' houses, stole drugs &
money, and resold drugs.

860929, Plainfield, NJ.  Surprise urine tests of all police & firemen in May
yielded 20 positive for marijuana and/or cocaine, including 2 cops.  On 16
July, the suspended firemen filed in federal court.  US District Judge H Lee
Sarokin ruled that "mass roundup urinalysis" violated constitutional
prohibitions against unreasonable search & seizure.  Ref: Newsweek, Sep 29,
1986, p18.  But of course it's not unconstitutional nor unreasonable for mass
urinalysis of schoolchildren.

861002, San Antonio, TX.  There is a loss of credibility of the police
department.  There have been assorted scandals, such as Cop Smith (murderer,
arsonist) being shot by cop Ferrell Tucker for knowing too much.  A 34 year
veteran, unnamed, was arrested on drug charges.  Ref: CNN, WBKY, 2 Oct 86,
3:30pm; 31 Oct 86, 11:25PM

861007, Pikeville, KY.  Not a drug story, probably.  Pike County Kentucky
Sheriff Charles "Fuzzy" Keesee "misplaced" $300,000 in tax collections during
his previous administration.  The Courier-Journal, p1

861007, Louisville, KY.  The Jefferson County Commissioner, Carl Brown, is
charged with distribution of marijuana and cocaine.  The Courier-Journal, pB4

861010, London, KY.  Morgan Co Judge-Executive Gene Allen has a motion to
dismiss charges of conspiracy for murder of VA man in Morgan Co drug ring.
WBKY

861011?, Whitley County, KY.  Larry R Patrick of Williamsburg is convicted on
conspiracy to import cocaine.  He was found guilty of scheming with former
Scott Co, TN, Sheriff Marion Carson & Deputy Wayne Caldwell.  The Wayne County
Outlook p22, from The Whitley Republican.

861018, KY.  See The Courier-Journal, pB1 for Kentucky State Police
Commissioner, Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell & Kentucky State Trooper Gerald
Griggs were arrested for cocaine trafficking.

861022, London, KY.  Gene Allen (Morgan County Kentucky Judge-Executive) &
Gerald Griggs (State Police Trooper) are convicted of "murder for hire".
Marion Campbell (Kentucky State Police Commissioner) testified that they were
part of a counter-investigation so secret that no written records were ever
kept of their findings, but this was not convincing to the jury.

861024, Miami FL.  Seven cops are on trial for selling $5 million (15M$, DH, 2
Nov 86) of cocaine stolen from smugglers.  CNN News, 3:45PM

861110, "Inside the DEA", Reason, Dec 86, p23-29.  A compendium of DEA (Drug
Enforcement Administration) corruption reported by Dale Gieringer, Decision &
Ethics Center, Dept of Engineering-Economic Systems, Stanford Univ.

861111, New York City.  There is a New York City Police "slowdown" (strikes are
illegal) to protest investigation of police corruption.  CNN News, WBKY,
11:40PM.  See 860924

13 Nov 86.  London, KY.  "Corruption probe: Half of cases resolved" by
Assistant US Attorney James E. Arehart.  Gene Allen, 3 time Judge-Executive of
Morgan County, Kentucky was convicted of conspiracy to murder.  Gerald Griggs,
Kentucky State Police Trooper was convicted in the same murder for hire
scheme.  Both were represented by Kevin Charters of Lexington, KY.  William
Titus Frederick, coal operator and businessman, of West Liberty, KY pleaded
guilty to manufacturing marijuana.  Benny Neely, London, pleaded guilty to
transporting stolen heavy equipment across state lines.  Norman B. Williams
III, of Detroit, MI pleaded guilty to transporting a stolen car across state
lines.  Dr. Billy Davis, Urgent Care Center of Burnside, KY pleaded guilty to
conspiracy to defraud two insurance companies of $1.1 million for a phony
traffic accident.  Lester H. Burns, Jr, former Kentucky State Senator &
attorney, Somerset, KY, pleaded guilty to insurance fraud and pleaded guilty to
conspiracy to transport stolen money ($1.9 million stolen from the Dr. R. J.
Acker robbery & murder) across state lines.  James H. Noble, former Kentucky
District Judge, convicted of obstruction of justice and yet to be tried in the
insurance fraud conspiracy.  Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell, Kentucky State
Police Commissioner, to be tried on Jan 5, 87, for extortion for allegedly
taking money for protecting drug-trafficking activities.  Roger Benton, Morgan
County Kentucky Sheriff, accused of conspiracy of drug-trafficking.  Lexington
Herald-Leader, Nov 13, 86, pA1, A16.

861113, Knoxville, TN.  9 cops arrested in the Charles Walker cocaine
trafficking ring.  Knoxville TV.

861118, Miami, FL.  1300 pounds marijuana was stolen from police headquarters
evidence storage.  This theft is thought to be an inside job.  The marijuana
was valued at $4 million.  That's $3000 per pound.  This is the 4th major theft
of drug evidence in last few months.  CNN News, WBKY (Lexington, KY) 11:45PM.
Also a Columbian cocaine ring was indicted, but the indictees are safely in
Columbia.

861120,  London, KY.  Lester Burns, Jr, 55, (attorney, former Kentucky State
Police trooper, former Kentucky State Senator) pleaded guilty to two charges
of conspiracy with Dr. Bill Davis to defraud two insurance companies by
faking a vehicle accident. He also pleaded guilty to receiving stolen money
from the Dr. Roscoe Acker robbery & murder. Charges of conspiracy with
former Breathitt District Judge James Noble (recently convicted of perjury in
Federal Court in Lexington) to defraud an insurance company were dropped.  The
Assistant US Attorney was James Arehart.  The Judge was Eugene Siler, Jr.  The
Wayne County Outlook, 20 Nov 86, p18.  From The Sentinel-Echo.

861126, Somerset, KY.  The younger brother of David Dick, Kentucky State
Police, was arrested last month for cultivating 78 marijuana plants.  The
police missed a quarter acre plot.  James Dick, older brother, was recently
arrested on drug charges.  Personal communication, Dallas Hammond.  Trooper
Dick was finally apprehended 901104, see 901108.

861200.  Lester Burns, Jr., former Kentucky State Senator, former Kentucky
State Police, disbarred.  Now former attorney.

861212, London, KY.  Gene Allen, Judge-Executive of Morgan County, Kentucky is
sentenced to 5 years for conspiracy to murder.  Gerald Griggs, Kentucky State
Police, had his sentencing delayed.  Titus Frederick, coal baron, was let off
in return for testifying against Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell, Kentucky
State Police Commissioner, in his trial for conspiracy to distribute illegal
drugs.  Ref: KET, WLEX

861216, London, KY.  Gerald Griggs, Kentucky State Police, is sentenced to 5
years in prison for conspiracy to commit murder in "Operation Leviticus" drug
deal.

861222, Louisville, KY.  Carl Brown, Jefferson County Commissioner, is
arraigned for something, and sent to Missouri [?], for psychiatric evaluation.
Brown is to be arraigned later on drug distribution charges.  His left hand was
severely swollen and ace bandaged, but no explanation was given.  He also
looked very woozy and inattentive.  KET, Louisville.

8612??, London, KY.  Sherry Lorraine Hodge pleaded guilty to conspiracy to
transport stolen money across state lines in the $1,900,000 (that's 1.9
megabux) Acker robbery & murder.  Hodge says that she gave $300,000 to C. Gene
Foust, 49, Detective Sergeant and Head Narcotics Officer and 21-year veteran of
the Oak Ridge Tennessee Police Department.  The Head Narcotics Officer was to
invest it "to make more money for me." Mrs.  Hodge's attorney is Robert Wilmott
of Lexington KY.  Formerly her attorney was Lester Burns, Jr, former Kentucky
State Senator, former Kentucky State Police, of Somerset KY, who pleaded guilty
to receiving stolen money from the robbery and is now disbarred.  The Judge is
Eugene Siler, Jr.  Co-transporters of stolen money are Anna Louise Farley
(mother of Donald Terry Bartley), Sharon Joyce Wilson, & Barry Wilson who
helped Hodge transport $1,200,000 from Florida to Knoxville, TN after the
arrest of her husband, Benny Lee Hodge.  Donald Terry Bartley, Roger Dale
Epperson, and Benny Lee Hodge are to be tried May 1987 for robbery & murder of
a Jackson County, KY couple, and also face unspecified charges in other
unspecified states.  The FBI searched the home of C.  Gene Foust on 2 Dec 86.
Wayne County Outlook, 24 Dec 86, p19.  From The Sentinel- Echo.

861231.  Lester Burns, Jr is ordered to return $175,000 to Dr.  Roscoe Acker.
This was his attorney's fee for the defense of the murderers/robbers.

870112, Boston, MA.  David McCuen joined Wilmington police in 73, and was
promoted to sergeant in 78, after paying $4000 for a copy of the sergeant's
exam.  Several hundred individuals eventually were involved.  Many individuals
were placed into positions to promote the organized crimes of the Police
Department.  Chief of the scam was Gerald W Clemente, who did a $1.5 million
bank robbery and other burglaries to finance drug deals.  Margo Monaco, Boston,
National Public Radio.  See also Newsweek, 11 Aug 86.

870112, Lexington, KY.  Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell, Kentucky State Police
Commissioner, and Roger Benton, Morgan County Kentucky Sheriff, are on trial.
Houston McNeal, two years a undercover FBI agent, testified that he had made
payments of $5000 a month to Campbell, Benton, and Titus Frederick for landing
rights at the West Liberty, KY airport.  (It is unclear if this was each or
total.) KET, WLEX

870113, Lexington, KY.  In the Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell, Kentucky State
Police Commissioner trial, Campbell is represented by William Johnson.  The
Trial apparently started 9 Jan 87.  Houston McNeal, two years an undercover FBI
agent from Virginia, testified that he had made installment payments to Roger
Benton, Morgan County Kentucky Sheriff; Gene Allen, Morgan County Kentucky
Judge-Executive; and Marion Campbell, Kentucky State Police Commissioner, for
assistance in drug trafficking.  McNeal said that he met Campbell on a dark
backroad, where Campbell thanked him for the money.  A tape recording of
Campbell taking payoffs from McNeal was played.  WBKY (Lexington, KY)

870114, Lexington, KY.  In the Kentucky State Police Commissioner Captain
Marion "Butch" Campbell trial, Titus Frederick, coal baron and marijuana
manufacturer testified that in a meeting at Frederick's house in 1984, three-
time Morgan County Kentucky Judge-Executive Gene Allen and Marion Campbell had
asked him for contacts in the marijuana and cocaine business.  Lester Burns,
Jr, former Kentucky State Senator, former Kentucky State Police Trooper, former
attorney (now disbarred) bankrolled the operation, and Marion Campbell was in
charge of security at the Morgan County airport.  Their business grossed about
3/4 of a million dollars a week in cocaine.  Houston McNeal, undercover
Virginia FBI investigator, testified that Campbell said that he was receiving
payments from undercover agents.  It is unclear whether Campbell thought that
they were FBI agents or drug dealers.  Or both.  WBKY.  KET, WLKY(?)

870115, Lexington, KY.  In the Kentucky State Police Commissioner Captain
Marion "Butch" Campbell trial, Steve Allen, son of the Morgan County Judge-
Executive, testified that he saw a $90,000 cocaine sale in November 85 at the
house of his father, Morgan County Kentucky Judge-Executive Gene Allen.  In
this transaction, Gene Allen was paid his share plus a share to pass along to
Marion Campbell.  Gene Allen, Morgan County Kentucky Judge-Executive and
convicted murder conspirator, testified that he has known Marion Campbell for
25 years and Morgan County Sheriff Roger Benton all of his life.  He met
several times in late 1983 with Marion Campbell, Titus Frederick, and Lester
Burns, Jr to import cocaine from Okalachee, FL.  Campbell was said to want the
money for his retirement fund.  Titus Frederick testified that Gene Allen and
Marion Campbell had pushed him to find a cocaine connection.  WEKU, KET, WLEX

870116, Lexington, KY.  In the Kentucky State Police Commissioner, Captain
Marion "Butch" Campbell trial, Gene Allen, former Morgan County, Kentucky
Judge-Executive who has been convicted of conspiracy to murder, was cross
examined.  He has changed his story because he got religion in jail.  In his
trial in September 86 he claimed that he and Campbell were running their own
investigation of drug corruption, without telling anyone else and keeping no
records of what they had discovered.  He passed money to Campbell once by
laying an envelope full of money on the dash of Campbell's truck, and once on
the truck seat, but never actually in Campbell's hand.  KET, WLKY, 10:07PM

870121, Miami, FL.  Seven Miami cops are given a mistrial in a case of
racketeering and drug corruption.  The reasons are undisclosed.  See 24 Oct 86,
16 Jan 87

870123, Lexington, KY.  In the Kentucky State Police Commissioner, Captain
Marion "Butch" Campbell trial, Jack Evans, Kentucky State Police, testified
that he had talked with Campbell thrice about the trial, and got the idea (but
was never told openly) that Campbell wanted him to perjure.  WBKY

870126, "Is There a Contra Drug Connection?", Newsweek, p26.  Gary Betzner, 45,
a crop duster pilot from Arkansas, says that he imported Columbian cocaine thru
contra airstrips in Costa Rica with George Morales, a Columbian emigre with an
aircraft chartering business.  Both claim that they had the full knowledge and
assistance of CIA and DEA.  A third witness, unnamed, claims to have seen
Southern Air Transport planes being loaded with cocaine in Barranquilla,
Columbia in 1985.  So cocaine trafficking is OK if it supports revolution in
Nicaragua.

870126, Lexington, KY.  In the Kentucky State Police Commissioner, Captain
Marion "Butch" Campbell & Roger Benton trial, Louie di Falais, US Attorney &
apparently part of the "Operation Leviticus" investigation, testified that in
two years of investigation of Marion Campbell, Campbell gave no indications of
ever conducting his own investigation.  The Chief of Police of West Liberty,
the Morgan County Seat, said that he knew nothing of the two years of drug
traffic thru the West Liberty airport.  Roger Benton, Sheriff of Morgan County,
Kentucky, has a previous conviction for bootlegging.  KET, WTVQ

870127, Lexington, KY.  In the Kentucky State Police Commissioner, Captain
Marion "Butch Campbell & Morgan County Kentucky Sheriff Roger Benton trial,
Roger Benton testified that he went along with the drug trafficking in hopes to
make some arrests and stop the drug operations.  WBKY

870202, Miami, FL.  Seven cops are given a mistrial in their drug racketeering
trial.  Thus they did not rob a boat and drown the owners and sell the
cocaine.  Roman Rodriguez, Ricardo Aleman, Rodolfo Arias, Osvaldo Coello,
Arturo de la Vega, Armando Estrada, & Armando Garcia, are the fortunate cops.
They managed a fine lifestyle on a $30,000 per year salary.  The Judge was
Kenneth Ryskamp.  The holdout juror was William Rountree.  USN&WR, Feb 2, 1987,
p28.  See 880105 & 880106 for a recant.

870204, Lexington, KY.  Morgan County Kentucky Sheriff Roger Benton says that
he will appeal his conviction on drug trafficking charges on grounds that his
trial should have had nothing to do with the trial of Marion "Butch" Campbell.
He obviously thinks that Campbell will be found guilty.  This came after one
verdict was reached but not announced.  WKYT/KET

870205, Lexington, KY.  Roger Benton, Sheriff of Morgan County, KY, is found
guilty on all counts, three counts of extortion and two of drug trafficking
conspiracy.  He faces a maximum sentence of 80 years.  WLAP (Lexington, KY),
2PM

870206, Lexington, KY.  Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell, Kentucky State Police
Commissioner, is acquitted on four counts of extortion and given a mistrial on
one count of conspiracy to traffic in marijuana and cocaine.  WLAP

870206, Comment on Kentucky, KET.  Three reasons are given for Kentucky State
Police Commissioner, Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell's acquittal on charges of
extortion and drug trafficking.  1) Gene Allen, Morgan County Judge-Executive
changed his story from his trial where he was convicted of conspiracy to
murder.  Formerly, he had said under oath that Campbell was conducting his own
investigation.  The new story is that they were indeed trafficking in cocaine.
2) Allen said that on four occasions that he gave payoff money to Campbell, but
never directly.  Allen was the only solid witness against Campbell on this, but
he is a self-confessed perjurer.  3) In a taped meeting with an FBI informant,
Campbell thanked him for "information".  The prosecution said that this was
code word for protection money; the defense said that this was just normal
information.  The FBI never actually got Campbell on tape accepting payoff
money.  The jury was leaning towards acquittal on the drug trafficking
conspiracy charges, with at least two holdouts.  Prosecutor Arehart wants a
retrial.  I'm sure that none of the jurors would have been in the least bit
concerned about their personal safety after finding the State Police
Commissioner guilty of drug trafficking!

8702??.  There are various news reports of a retrial for Kentucky State Police
Commissioner, Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell on charges of trafficking in
cocaine and marijuana, but no date was given.

870223, Washington, DC.  "Contra Drug Inquiry Stirs Growing Interest", by Keith
Schneider, The New York Times, Tuesday, February 24, 1987, pA22.  U.  S.
Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, a committee member on the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee has witnesses and evidence that a private network
had been organized by the National Security Council [NSC] and the Central
Intelligence Agency [CIA] to provide military equipment to Contras in
Nicaragua.  The investigators said that they also believed that the same
network was shipping cocaine and marijuana back to the United States.  Federal
officials, of course, deny this vicious rumor spread by Communist sympathizers.

870313, Lexington, KY.  Kentucky State Police Commissioner, Captain Marion
"Butch" Campbell is scheduled for retrial on 11 May 87 for conspiracy to
traffic in cocaine and marijuana.  But 11 May 87 will come and go with
absolutely no mention on any newscast that a Butch Campbell had ever existed.
Morgan County Kentucky Sheriff Roger Benton is denied a retrial on his
conviction for extortion and conspiracy to distribute cocaine.  Various radio
reports.

870322, Richmond?, KY.  Kentucky State Police crime lab director Glen Morgan
Baxter is accused of falsifying hundreds of tests, including his own
qualifications.  WBKY, 11PM.

870326, Lexington, KY.  Morgan County, Kentucky, Sheriff Roger Benton is
sentenced to 10 years in prison and a fine of $10,000 on three counts of
extortion and two counts of conspiracy to traffic in illegal drugs.  KET

870331, Louisville, KY.  Jeffrey Miles of 2401 Coolridge Ave, Okalona, age 24
or 25, is shot and killed by Louisville cop, John Rucker (Rutger) in a raid on
Miles' home.  Miles' crime was to be living in an apartment inhabited two years
ago by a suspected drug dealer.  (The correct address was available in the
phone directory.) The murderer was sentenced to paid leave and consultation
with the chaplain.  KET

870402.  James H Noble, Kentucky District Judge, Breathitt County, Kentucky
previously convicted of obstruction of justice for offering to lie in the
witness stand for Lester Burns, Jr in a mail fraud trial, is temporarily
disbarred.  Judge Noble was sentenced to two years on the obstruction of
justice conviction.

8704??, Wayne Co, KY.  More unconfirmable rumors that Joe Conn, former Sheriff
of Wayne County, Kentucky, is in prison for drug trafficking.  Dallas Hammond
says that Joe Conn was jailed about five months ago.  Reportedly the FBI caught
him near Wayne/McCreary line with 18 wheeler full of marijuana headed for the
airport in Pine Knot, KY.  Harold Tucker says that he was told by Roosevelt
Jones that Joe Conn was in prison on drug charges, but could not confirm the
details of the reputed arrest.  These are unconfirmed rumors only.  Nobody has
any hard news.

870429, Jeffersontown (Louisville), KY.  Policeman John Rutger is indicted for
second degree manslaughter and suspended from the police department.  This is
for "accidentally" shooting Jeffrey Miles for the crime of living in an
apartment inhabited two years ago by a suspected drug dealer.  WHAS.  See
870331.

870511.  This is the supposed retrial date of Kentucky State Police
Commissioner (now retired) Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell on charges of
conspiracy to traffic in cocaine and marijuana.  There was absolutely no
mention of this unevent on several Kentucky radio newscasts.  See 870313.

870515.  Lester Burns, Jr., former Kentucky State Senator, former Kentucky
State Police, former attorney, is sentenced to eight years in prison, four each
for receiving stolen money from Epperson's Acker robbery/murder, and for
conspiracy to defraud an insurer.  Burns will be eligible for parole in two
years.  WBKY.  See 860324, 860716, 861113, 8612??, 861231, 870114.

870518, Ocean County, NJ.  Fifteen people are arrested by DEA at the home of a
local policeman.  No information was given of what they were doing to merit
this attention.  Phone conversation, Margaret Stiles.

870520.  The plane used by the Brother-in-law of Alphonso Collero (of Nicaragua
Contras) to transport drugs was then used to transport supplies to the
contras.  This was the testimony of Robert Owen, "The Courier".  25K$ in
travelers checks were given to DEA by Alphonso Collero.  MacNeil-Lehrer News
Hour

870524, Steve Waddams, Sunday Morning, CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation),
quoting Daniel Sheehan of The Christic Institute of Washington DC.  "The Secret
Team", started as a CIA Cuban anti-Castro operation, which funded itself by
drug trafficking.  In about 1966, Richard Secord under CIA auspices, bombed
the opposition of Vang Pao, their pet Opium Emperor of Laos.  "The Secret Team"
was importing 600 pound loads of cocaine from Costa Rica while supplying
Nicaraguan contras.

870630.  In secret testimony in the Iran-Contra hearings, Ramon Milian-
Rodriguez testified that he sold to Felix Rodriguis $10,000,000 (ten million
dollars) of cocaine for CIA contra funding.  WSFC, (ABC)

870709.  US Attorney General Edwin Meese tries to prevent a House of
Representatives Committee from questioning three federal prosecutors in Miami,
FL concerning CIA drug and gun smuggling.  A House subpoena is issued.  CNN, AP

8709??, American Information Network Freedom League Newsletter, p6, quoting
Daily News Digest, POB 39027, Phoenix, AZ 85069.  Lt Col Bo Gritz testified
before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, International Narcotics Control
Task Force, Larry Smith (D-FL) Chairman.  Gritz has 40 hours of video tape with
General Khun Sa of Burma, the recognized opium kingpin (700 tons in 86, 900
tons in 87) in the Golden Triangle.  Khun Sa "charged American officials, both
past and present, with being the chief buyers of drugs produced in that part of
the world." Also he claims that he wants to stop drug trafficking, but that the
US government won't let him.  Khun Sa said that individuals in CIA are some of
his best customers.  He offered support to DEA to alert them of drug movements,
but this was rejected at the headquarters level.  Theodore Shackley CIA agent
in Laos from 1965-1975, was involved with Mao Se Hung (leading drug smuggler)
and Santo Trafficante (Florida Mafia boss).  Khun Sa says that Richard
Armitage (then in the US Embassy, now Assistant Secretary of Defense) financed
drug smuggling in VietNam, then in Bangkok from 1975 to 1979.  CIA agents
Daniel Arnold and Jerry Daniel trafficked weapons and drugs with Khun Sa.
Gritz claims that there is a parallel US government which started with the
"Phoenix Program" in VietNam twenty years ago.

870905, The Nation, p189-192.  "How the Drug Czar Got Away", by Martin A.
Lee.  The gist of the story is that the USA is more interested in implicating
Nicaraguan Sandanistas in drug running than in prosecuting smugglers.  Also the
US Government funded contras with drug money.  Jorge Luis Ochoa of Columbia was
captured in Spain.  The DEA (at least one agent was also member of Lieut Col
Oliver North's team) offered to have extradition bungled if Ochoa would
implicate the Nicaraguan Sandanista government in cocaine trafficking.  Ochoa
refused.  After 20 months, Spain decided that USA was seeking to use Ochoa as a
political instrument and denied extradition to USA.  Ochoa had fled to Spain in
June 1984 after being implicated in the assassination of Lara Bonilla, the
Columbian Minister of Justice who had crusaded against his country's $5 billion
per year cocaine trade.  Alder Berriman Seal (Barry Seal) said he flew 1500
kilograms of cocaine from Columbia to Managua for Ochoa.  The story quotes The
Wall Street Journal as reporting that four imprisoned drug pilots who knew
Seal said that Seal was part of contra supply network, delivering weapons and
drugs.  Seal also took secret photos of Sandanista soldiers loading cocaine on
his C-123 transport (the same plane as shot down with Eugene Hasenfus).  Ochoa
contributed money to contras.  Ramon Milian-Rodriguez told Senate Subcommittee
on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations that he had funneled $10
million to the contras thru former CIA operative Felix Rodriguez in 1983.
James Kible, Madrid Spain based DEA agent assigned to Ochoa case and another
DEA agent, Victor Oliveira were caught while boarding a plane for Switzerland
at Madrid Barajos Airport with $5 million in cash, supposedly for North's
contra-aid team.  The records of these arrests have been disappeared.

870912, 11:01 PM, WBKY.  A drug bust in Owensboro, KY, in June 1986 lead to
conviction of a staff officer and 6 other officers of the Philadelphia PA
Police Department for drug manufacturing.

870913, Clay Co, KY, 3:20PM, WBKY.  Cooms?  of Clay Co, KY, busted for
marijuana production two weeks ago, says that the police should be spending
their time chasing criminals, not pot patches.  Kentucky State Police
Commissioner Elkins replies that there is nothing under the law to make them do
so.  This may be the same as J. C. Lawson, see Sinsemilla Tips, Fall 87, p24.

870921", Time, p33.  Jamie Herrera Nevarez, 60, the "Drug Lord of Durango"
Mexico and former policeman, was arrested by Mexican police for US DEA.  He ran
$200 million heroin pipeline into midwest USA.

8709??, CIA Drug Connection, The Christic Institute, 1324 North Capitol Street,
NW, Wash DC 20002.  [phone].  Lawyers from The Christic Institute were
retained by Tony Avirgan and Martha Honey, reporters wounded in the May 30,
1984 terrorist bombing in La Penca, Nicaragua.  John Hull, CIA contract
operative in Costa Rica, has a ranch which is used as airstrip for arms and
drug running for Nicaraguan contras.  The cocaine was supplied by Columbians
Pablo Escobar and Jorge Ochoa, partners of Carlos Lehder.  Francisco Paco
Chanes was the connection on US end.  "The Secret Team", including retired Air
Force Maj Gen Richard Secord; Albert Hakim, international arms dealer; Theodore
Shackley, head of covert operations during Vice President George Bush's term as
Director of the CIA; Thomas Clines, Shackley's deputy; and retired Army Maj Gen
John K Singlaub, backed Vang Pao, a major opium trafficker, in Southeast Asia,
1965-75, using the resulting money to train Hmong tribesmen.  The heroin
connection in USA was Mafia "Don" Santo Trafficante.  The opium business banked
with Nugen Hand Bank of Australia.

870917, Washington, DC.  6000[?] drug trafficking cases dismissed as a result
of a FBI investigation of police stealing from drug dealers during arrests.
CNN 4:43AM.

870919, The Nation, p254-274.  There is a spat between Daniel P Sheehan of The
Christic Institute and Jonathan Kwitny, author of The Crimes of Patriots: A
True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money, and the CIA, published by WW Norton, over the
extent of USA complicity in Nicaraguan contra drug smuggling.

8710??, American Information Network Newsletter, p2.  There is more on the Bo
Gritz/CIA/heroin connection.  The operation is said to have been at its peak in
1975 & 76 under George Bush.  CIA agents Theodore Shackley and Richard
Armitage (now Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense) as The Far East Trading
Company were involved in heroin smuggling with Mao Se Hung.  H Ross Perot found
the same drug connections and was told by Frank Carlucci (National Security
Advisor) to stop pursuing the connection to Richard Armitage.  Last year 700
tons of opium were exported from Burma and this year's crop is 900 tons.  There
is also a statement by Lance Trimmer about two trips to the lair of Khun Sa,
opium smuggler and chief of his own 40,000 man private army in Burma.  By Don
Bell, POB 2223, Palm Beach, FL 33480.

871019, Louisville, KY.  Tringle, a Louisville Kentucky narcotics officer
wrecks his undercover cruiser at high speed while off duty.  A cooler full of
liquor was found in the vehicle and officer Tringle was found to have a blood
alcohol level of 2.5 (said to be too drunk to stand up).  KET, 32.  [That's
gotta be 0.25 blood alcohol!]

871111, Bowling Green, KY.  KET, WAVE.  John Rucker is found not guilty in the
murder of Jeffrey Miles.

871112 12:09AM, Chicago, IL, WBBM radio.  Eugene Harnalski, Chicago cop, left
his badge and service revolver as collateral for a drug buy.  Now he is on
trial for racketeering, so apparently he was not supposed to do it.  This came
out in the testimony of the drug dealer [named, but not remembered].

871123.  Congressman Carroll Hubbard asks FBI to investigate the involvement of
Henry Vance (Lexington bigwig recently convicted of supplying the gun used to
kill the prosecutor in a drug case in Florida) in wholesale cocaine and
marijuana trade in western Kentucky.  Hubbard states that major drug smugglers
are using local airports, including Bowling Green, KY.  On 930416, Comment on
Kentucky, Bonnie Kelly (the shooter) is the wife of Mike Kelly, Lexington cop.

871130, Time, p29.  Mike "Mad Dog" Roark (so named for his fierce pursuit of
drug dealers while outfitted in combat fatigues and packing a pistol)
prosecutor and mayor of Charleston, WV pleaded guilty to six counts of cocaine
possession.  Does this sound like any local officials you know?  See 880114.

8711??, "The Contra-Drug Connection", The Christic Institute, 1324 North
Capitol Street, NW, Wash DC 20002.  [phone].  $2.  12p.  Extensive
documentation associates several of Oliver North's team with large-scale drug
trafficking to finance covert wars in Cuba, Southeast Asia, and Central
America, for over two decades.  Plane loads of cocaine from Columbia, supplied
by Pablo Escobar and Jorge Ochoa, were flown to John Hull's ranch in northern
Costa Rica.  Three pilots say that they delivered weapons to John Hull's ranch
and returned to USA with cocaine and marijuana.  Cocaine was also smuggled from
John Hull to Miami in frozen shrimp, shipped to Ocean Hunter, Inc and Mr.
Shrimp, Inc.

880105, CNN News.  A Los Angeles Federal Grand Jury indicts nine, including
three Mexican police officers for the murder of DEA agent Enrique Camerara
Solarez [sp?] in Guadalajara, Mexico three years ago.

880105, CNN, 3:13P.  I only caught the last part of the story.  A Miami cop
acquitted in the case of the murder and rip-off of three drug dealers recants.
On tape he says that he is sorry and that he disgraced his badge, but that
there are thousands of honest police.  [Maybe even several thousand honest
police, if you were to look over the entire country.] Miami officials want an
end to investigations of this case, as it is showing their wonderful city in a
bad light, among other reasons.

880106, "As It Happens", CBC.  In "Miami Vice", a phone interview with Paul
Miller, Special Agent, FBI, he states that there were three or four rip-offs of
boatloads of cocaine by Miami Police from about May 85 to Summer 85.  In the
case where three drug smugglers were drowned, eight officers rushed the boat
and the victims threw themselves into the sea and drowned themselves.  The
investigation is probing a conspiracy to kill witnesses.  So far, nine have
pleaded guilty, four more are cooperating, two more are on trial, two more are
fugitives, and twenty more have been suspended from The Force.  See 861024,
870121, 870202.

880109, The Nation, p6.  Chapter 23, page 371, footnote 84 of the Iran/Contra
report.  In 1986 Fawn Hall asked DEA agents to meet with Michael Leeden.
Leeden had a $30,000 contract with Continental Airlines to find out how to stop
the DEA from seizing their airplanes when cocaine was found aboard.

880114, Charleston, WV, WHAS.  12:04P "Mad Dog" Roark, mayor of Charleston WV,
plea bargains guilty on six cocaine charges, twenty-four others were dropped.
Mad Dog was sentenced to 179 days in jail, three years probation, and a $5000
fine.  See 871130.

880202, Lumberton, NC.  An American Indian takes hostages to publicize the
actions of the local sheriff.  A radio tape by this hostage taker starts with
the accusation that the sheriff's department was involved with drug
trafficking, and then went on to complain about the killing of a Black and two
Indians by the sheriff.

880204.  General Noriega of Panama is indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in Miami
FL on thirty counts of assorted drug trafficking charges, taking millions of
dollars in payoffs from The Medellin Cartel, racketeering, conspiracy with
Oliver North to fake a shipment of arms from Nicaragua to El Salvador [on the
Pia Vesta, which Noriega seized and kept the arms], obtaining chemicals for and
protecting cocaine labs, providing airstrips for drug smuggling, providing
refuge for drug traffickers, etc.  Leon Keller is the Federal Attorney.  Also
more indictments of Noriega are opened in Tampa for conspiracy to import one
million pounds of marijuana.  Testimony was given by pilot Floyd Carlton and
Panamanian Consul General Jose Blandon.  This was reported by Alan Tomlinson,
NPR.  On top of that, Noriega has been on the CIA payroll since 1966 at
$200,000 per year.  Senator John Kerry chaired a hearing on Noriega, with Jose
Blandon as star witness.  Blandon says Noriega made $80 million per year in
drug trafficking and another $20 million for emigration papers at $4000 per
head, allowing Cubans to claim to be Panamanians for migration to USA.

880205, Cincinnati, OH.  Kentucky State Police Commissioner Marion "Butch"
Campbell is appealing in Federal Court the government plans for a retrial on
drug trafficking conspiracy charges.  Morgan County Kentucky Sheriff Benton,
convicted on conspiracy to murder witnesses to drug trafficking, is still not
in prison.  KET

880208, USN&WR, p28.  The Medellin Cartel controls 80% of cocaine imported into
the United States.  Fifty Columbian judges have been murdered by the cartel in
the past five years.  Columbia is unable [or unwilling?] to control the drug
business.

880213.  An article in The Boston Globe by Stephen Kurkjian and Mark Hosenball
reports on the Senator John F Kerry hearings.  "About a dozen Nicaraguans who
back the contras have been prosecuted in the United states for drug-related
felonies." Michael B Palmer, 41, of Florida indicted in June 1986, walked away
from an airtight drug smuggling case because a Detroit federal prosecutor
dropped it in the "interest of justice".  Palmer was alleged to have flown
marijuana into US from Columbia from 1977 to 1986.  In 1985 & 86 Palmer flew
humanitarian aid to Central America for the State Department.  Leigh Rich
testified that the marijuana smuggling group headed by Palmer grossed billions
of dollars.  Customs, at the request of the CIA, did not search the planes.
The plane was registered to Vortex, Inc, a State Department and CIA contractor.

880306, Minneapolis Star Tribune, p17A.  An article by Daniel Siegel and Jenny
Yancey reports on the Senator John Kerry, Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee
hearings.  Ramon Milian-Rodriguez, Medellin Cartel money launderer, said that
he gave money, including $10 million in cocaine profits, to Felix Rodriguez
between 1982 & 1985.  The cocaine was flown from Columbia to the John Hull
ranch in Costa Rica.  Weapons for contras were flown to the Hull ranch and
cocaine was flown back on return trips.  Pilot Gary Betzner returned with 1000
kilo of cocaine.  Pilot Michael Tolliver said that he flew 25000 pounds of
marijuana into Homestead Air Force Base, Florida.

880330, In These Times, p 11.  An article by Anne-christine d'Adesky gives a
partial list of Caribbean officials alleged to have smuggled [illegal] drugs
thru their respective countries.  From the Bahamas, Prime Minister Pindling,
top customs official John Rolle, and conservative political party leader Sammy
L.  Miller.  From Haiti; Defense Minister Brig.  Gen.  Williams Regala, Army
Chief Gen Henri Namphy, Chief of Narcotics Carel Occel, Police Capt Gregoire
Figaro, civilians Joe Namphy (brother of Gen Namphy) and Alexander Paul
(brother of Col Paul) were part of group of Haitians who smuggled cocaine from
Columbia to South Florida via Bahamas and Dominican Republic.  Cuba; Fidel
Castro and Raul Castro and several navy officials are alleged to have smuggled
cocaine from Columbia to Florida via Cuba.  On Mar 16, 1988 US Attorney Leon
Keller (who indicted both Noriega and Paul) told two congressional
subcommittees a that a recent drug seizure produced evidence of official Cuban
and Haitian involvement.  Also Jamaica, Turks and Caicos, Honduras, Mexico, and
Panama.

880405, Honduras.  The Nation, May 7, 1988, p634.  Ramon Matta, suspected drug
kingpin and friend of several top Honduran military officers, is captured by
US Marshalls.  The Honduran DEA office, closed between 1983 & 1988, is
reopened.

880413, In These Times, April 13-19, 1988, p5.  Maj Gen Richard Secord is suing
Leslie Cockburn for $38 million for the loss of "business opportunities", such
as the gun and drug smuggling by the CIA in Central America.

880507, The Nation, p634.  Here is a summary of the Bo Gritz story.  In 1986,
Gritz went to Burma with White House blessings to meet with the drug warlord
Khun Sa, who supposedly had information of MIAs.  Khun Sa said that he wanted
to end the opium and heroin traffic in his territory and to expose U.  S.
officials involved in the drug smuggling.  Gritz claims that he took this
message to the US government and was told by Tom Harvey of the National
Security Council (NSC) that "there is no interest here" in the Khun Sa
overture.  In May 87, Gritz, with Lance Trimmer, a private detective, again
visited Khun Sa in Burma.  In a recent letter to George Bush, who heads the
National Narcotics Border Interdiction System, Gritz maintained that Khun Sa
claimed that he had once engaged in narcotics transactions with Richard
Armitage, now Assistant Secretary of Defense, and Theodore Shackley, the former
director for operations at the CIA, and other US officials.  George Bush was
head of the CIA in 1976 when Khun Sa said that he was selling drugs to top CIA
officials.  Gritz says that, strangely, nobody in the US government is
interested in investigating this.

880601, Philadelphia, PA.  Seven Philadelphia PA cops have been arrested with
$150,000 for drug trafficking over the past two years.  Mutual News, WSFC.
This may be the same seven involved in drug trafficking in Owensboro, KY.  See
870912.

880608.  Arms broker Richard Brenneke publicly charges that George Bush's
office directly supervised the contra arms network which was funded by
Columbian drug money in association with the Israeli Mossad.  The Washington
contact was Donald Gregg, Bush's national security advisor.  In These Times,
Jun 8-21, 1988, p7.  /Is this the same Donald Gregg who in now the US
Ambassador to South Korea?  9101.

880905.  Detroit, MI has at least 100 police officers under investigation for
ties to the drug underworld.  However, Chief of Police William Hart insists
that His Force is free of systemic corruption.  Newsweek, Sep 5, 1988, p37.
/Chief Hart was finally arrested and charged with embezzlement of 2.5M$ from
the Police Department undercover narcotics fund on 910213.

881003.  Elaine Shannon in Desperados says that in June 1984, Oliver North, in
an effort to expose alleged links between the Sandanistas and drug dealers,
leaked information which exposed Barry Seal who was infiltrating The Medellin
[cocaine] Cartel.  U.  S.  News & World Report, Oct 3, 1988, p13.

881122.  Two Los Angeles DEA agents are arrested for hiding money in
Switzerland.  CNN 11:05PM.  Another DEA agent, Darrell [Daniel?] Garcia who
bought a $500,000 home, is still at large.  These three agents had amassed
$600,000 in drugs and laundered money in the past 4 years.  Two drug dealers
under investigation were tipped off by these Agents of Justice.  CNN 3:13PM 25
Nov

881128.  Drug agents nationwide have been staging phony drug busts on their own
agents for years in an effort to gain the confidence of the "real" drug
smugglers.  CNN radio, 3:43PM, quoting The Houston Chronicle.  Sinsemilla Tips,
V8#3p21.

881129.  Marvin Washington, Lexington Fayette County Kentucky police officer
for the past eleven years, is arrested for armed robbery and possession of
illegal drugs.  Officer Washington accosted at gunpoint two restaurant
employees attempting to make a night bank deposit.  He was also found to be in
possession of cocaine.  KET.  Lexington.

881201.  Monitor Radio.  A retired New York City policeman was arrested in The
Great Mafia Drug Bust.

881205.  Special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh is investigating allegations that
the "Justice" Department deliberately stymied a Senate inquiry into contra gun
and drug smuggling in the spring of 1986.  U.  S.  News & World Report, p16.

890114.  John Hull is arrested by Costa Rican authorities on Thursday, 12 Jan
89 on charges of arms trafficking, drug smuggling, and espionage.  Warrants
were obtained in part from information from George Morales, drug smuggling
pilot for the CIA.  Hull steadfastly claims that he is a simple farmer and is
not a CIA operative.  His salary from the United States National Security
Council (NSC)is $10,000 per month.  WBKY, 4:15 PM /Farmer Hull has skipped bail
an as of late 1990 is reported to be hiding with his 20 year old female
companion in Nicaragua.

890100.  Clay County, KY.  J.C.  Lawson is arrested.  A vendetta is
specifically denied by the cops.  This is the fellow who had the nerve to
suggest that the police spend their time chasing murderers and thieves, rather
than pot patches.  KET.

890130, Adelaide, Australia, Insight, p35.  Detective Inspector Barry Moyse was
head of the police drug squad and was known for his high profile attack on
narcotics use.  In late 1987 he was convicted of trafficking in heroin he had
taken from the police property room.

890123.  Newsweek, p 60.  The Surgeon General's Report states that the annual
death toll in the United States from cigarettes is 390,000.  By 1992 the figure
has risen to 450,000 deaths per year from tobacco consumption in the US.

890220.  Newsweek, p8.  The Bush administration and a bipartisan group of
congressmen are quietly pressuring Costa Rica to release an American farmer
[sic] jailed there on drug charges.  John Hull, whose ranch near Nicaragua's
border figured in Oliver North's contra-supply network, was charged last month
with cocaine smuggling.  The U.S.  Embassy has protested his arrest, and 19
legislators - including Democratic Rep.  Lee Hamilton, a critic of contra aid -
are urging the case 'be concluded promptly ...  in a manner that will not
complicate U.S.-Costa Rican relations.'

890220.  On a Crime in Kentucky program, it was mentioned that 90% of prison
inmates in Kentucky are imprisoned for either drug or alcohol charges.  KET.

890225.  Lexington, KY.  Fayette County Kentucky Sheriff Lonas Taulbee and five
others are indicted on cocaine trafficking charges.  WSEK 11:14AM 25 Feb 89.

890231.  WBKY, 8AM.  KY News Net.  Lexington, KY.  Fayette County Sheriff Lonas
Taulbee resigns effective 14 April.  He was convicted and sentenced to 5 years
for theft and malfeasance.  He is yet to be tried for conspiracy to distribute
cocaine.

890417.  The Nation, p 512.  Guillermo Tabraue received $1400 per week from CIA
and did $75 million in marijuana and cocaine business between 1976 and 1987,
supposedly with the blessings of the CIA.

890419.  WFLW, 9:58AM.  also ABC.  The Everglades fire of about two weeks ago
was started by the burning of the records of a Miami cop arrested for cocaine
smuggling.

890508.  The Nation, p619.  Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy", a
report of the Senate Subcommittee on Narcotics, Terrorism and International
Operations released April 13.  It concludes that US knowingly used several drug
traffickers in its contra supply operations.  Four companies owned and operated
by narcotics traffickers, SETCO Air, DIASCA, Frigorificos de Punterenas, and
Vortex were selected by State Department.  John Hull accused of preparing false
affidavits for US Attorney Leon Kellner.

890508.  Cleveland, OH.  Newsweek, p26.  Arthur Feckner, drug wholesaler,
helped capture his supplier and 100 pounds of cocaine in 1985.  Feckner was
then allowed by Cleveland police to sell 13 pounds of cocaine for $452,000
[$35/gm].  An internal police inquiry had enough evidence to indict five
officers.  A judge ruled that state law permitted police drug sales if they
were claimed to be in pursuit of a dealer.  Present Police Chief Howard Rudolf
was head of narcotics department at start of Feckner affair.

890810.  WKYM.  Judge Eddie Lovelace files suit against a Russell County KY
radio station for reporting on 24 July 89 that he was suspended for 6 months
for interference with the Clinton County marijuana cultivation case against
Clinton County Court Clerk Lloyd Stockton.  Believe it or not, it is illegal to
mention that a lawyer has been reprimanded!

890815.  WBKY, 12:35PM.  Edward O'Brien, DEA agent, was arrested at Logan
airport in Boston Massachusetts with 62 pounds of cocaine in his suitcase.  DEA
Agent O'Brien is described as being "high ranking and decorated", as well as a
cocaine smuggler.  /Newsweek Aug 28, 1989.  Edward, Paul, and John O'Brien,
brothers, were all arrested.  This is the fourth DEA agent arrested on drug
charges this year.

890830.  KY News Net.  Captain Marion "Butch" Campbell wins!  On a final
appeal, Judge Carl Forrester rules that evidence is inadmissible for a
retrial.  Kentucky State Police Commissioner makes a good front for cocaine
smuggling.

890907, WTVQ.  Jackie, son of [Bill Robert ?], Owsley Co, KY, Judge-Executive
arrested on TV for FBI & CBS for marijuana cultivation.

890925.  Insight, p 44.  Democrat Rep.  James A.  Traficant, Jr.  received
$108,000 in bribes from organized crime in the 1980 race for Mahoning County,
Ohio Sheriff.  The 6th US Court of Appeals sez that the bribes are taxable.

890928.  WFLW.  Clinton Co, KY.  Judge Eddie Lovelace has his suspension for
protecting the local marijuana industry reduced from 6 months to 45 days.

891218, Newsweek, p 30.  Detroit, MI, top police officials are accused by FBI
of stealing more than $1 million intended for "buy and bust" operations against
competing drug dealers.  /Similar charges were also made in Sep 88 and Feb 91.

900118, WHAS, KNN.  Christian County KY Sheriff William Dillard & chief
deputy & others arrested 17 Jan 90 on Federal indictment for cocaine
distribution & accepting bribes to protect cocaine distribution after 1 year
FBI investigation.

900226.  Insight, p 37.  Murder indictments are handed down for Manuel Ibarra
Herrera, former chief of the Mexican Federal Police, and Miguel Aldana Ibarra,
his deputy and former Interpol director for murder and narcotics trafficking in
the death of DEA agent Enrique Camerena in 1985.  The kidnapping and torture of
Camerena was to find out how US officials had learned of the ties of members of
then-President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado's Cabinet to drug payoffs.

900305.  Paul Harvey.  The East Wendover, UT, police chief and his wife are
arrested for drug trafficking.

900400.  Acres, USA p 21.  Iran paid our conspirators for part of the contra
arms deal with heroin & morphine.

900403.  WDCL.  Bowling Green, Warren Co, KY.  Jailor Bunch & 7 deputies
indicted on many charges including drug dealing at the jail.

900414.  WHAS.  John Roger McDonald, age 22, dispatcher at Bowling Green KY
State Police is accused of stealing an undisclosed amount of cocaine from
evidence.

900425, KY News Net.  John Roger McDonald is accused of stealing 200 to 300
grams of cocaine in several thefts over 5 months from State Police Evidence.

900613, Paul Harvey.  Bronx, NY cops hold a "job action" to protest probes of
corruption in the police department.  They write no parking tickets.

900615.  WEKU.  Lexington, KY Fayette Co, KY Sheriff Taulbe loses appeal on
theft & malfeasance and is sentenced to 5 years.

900616.  KNN.  Versailles(?), KY.  Danny Allen Murphy is charged with
suffocating his wife in 85.  Also on trial next month on Federal drug charges.
His occupation is given as Lexington-Fayette County Police Officer.

900623, Western KY Univ Radio.  Dillard, Christian Co, KY Sheriff is convicted
of cocaine trafficking and taking a $5000 bribe from the Feds.  Found not
guilty on some other charges.

900717.  KNN.  Vine Grove, Hardin Co, KY.  Police Chief Abshire pleads guilty
to cocaine possession.

900727.  WSEK.  Whitley Co, KY.  Former Whitley County Judge-Executive Archie
Powers and Clifford Silers plead not guilty to cultivating 849 marijuana plants
in 2 plots.

900816.  WSEK, WKYU.  Eastern Kentucky.  In Operation Walking Short, the FBI
produces a 42 count indictment of Kentucky law officers for conspiracy to
extort and protect illegal drug traffickers.  Arrested were: John Mann, Sheriff
of Lee County, allegedly the master-mind, who took $38,500 in bribes from FBI
agents; Lester Dickerson, Sheriff of Wolfe County, Billy MacIntosh, Sheriff of
Owsley County; Dean Spencer, Sheriff of Breathitt County; Wilson Stone, Deputy
Sheriff of Wolfe County; and Omer Noe, Police Chief of Beattyville.  Two FBI
agents masqueraded as big Chicago "businessmen", in the business of importing
marijuana and cocaine.  They got a business license to air-drop and outship
their products from backwoods airstrips.  This is supposedly the biggest
[bigger than catching the Kentucky State Police Commissioner doing 3/4 million
dollars per week in cocaine trafficking??] bust in Kentucky.  Several newscasts
emphasized that this is no reason for good citizens to question the integrity
of their police; other radio stations issued an appeal for their good citizens
to report such activities to the FBI hotline.

900820.  KET.  Lexington Police Officer Dan Murphy is on trial for distribution
of marijuana, and weapons charges.  Judge Forrester will decide if the jury
should see Murphy's Jessamine County fortress/plantation/home.  The charges are
worth 30 years.

900822.  KET.  Lexington Kentucky.  Danny Allan Murphy, former Lexington
Kentucky Police Officer is convicted on marijuana distribution and machine gun
charges.  He is yet to stand trial for murder in Jessamine County.

901011, Christian Co, KY.  Christian County Kentucky Sheriff Dillard is
sentenced to 9 years in prison for selling cocaine & stealing $12,000 from the
government.  KNN

901018, PBS Frontline, "When Cops Go Bad", WGBH, Boston, MA.  Discussed the
Miami FL case (see 7 previous entries from 24 Oct 86 to 19 Apr 89) of organized
gangs of Miami police stealing and selling boatloads of cocaine.  In the Los
Angeles County Sheriff's Department, $1.4 million was skimmed by the
departmental drug squad.  Approximately 30 indictments were rendered, including
Jim Bouden and Dan Garner.  This source of revenue spread from the the Los
Angeles Police Department to the Feds.  DEA agents Daniel [Darrell?] Garcia,
Wayne Countryman, and John Jackson liberated 150 kilograms of heroin and sent
it to New York by FedEx for sale.  Two have plead guilty, and the third is on
trial.  50% of police corruption cases in the US are drug related, according to
the FBI.  32 DEA agents have been the target of internal investigations this
year, 54 Federal agents [does that include the DEA agents?], 40 State Police,
and 327 local policemen.  There are approximately 17000 local police
departments in the US.  In Sea Girt, NJ, pop 2500, 20 local people were
arrested in a drug dealing ring.  These included 3 of the 12 police, Sgt Joseph
Beaumont, Lt Robert Hindman, and Capt G Calusleri.  School officials don't know
how to explain to the children how these cops could preach their drug speech
while dealing at the same time.  There is a Justice Dept study of police
corruption.

901022, London, KY.  Lee County KY Sheriff Jonathan Mann is being held without
bond in the Laurel County jail.  He is charged with 19 counts of drug
trafficking and extortion, and taking $85,000 in payoffs from drug traffickers
posing as FBI agents.  He is running the Sheriff's Office from jail, having
appointed his wife as administrator.

901029, WTHL.  The drug trafficking trial of DEA agents Daniel [Darrell?]
Garcia, Wayne Countryman, and John Jackson is scheduled for next month.
Witness Stewart testified on videotape that that for three years he sold drugs
supplied by these DEA agents, shared two million dollars in profits with them,
and took lavish vacations with their families.  Witness Stewart testified on
videotape because he was not expected to live long enough to testify in person.

901108, Somerset, KY, WFLW & WSEK.  Ten year veteran Kentucky State Police
Trooper David Dick was issued a criminal summons (not arrested) as the result
of his superiors finding marijuana less than two ounces in the trunk of his
cruiser Sunday.  He claimed that this was leftover from an arrest and that he
had forgotten about it.  On Monday he resigned, according to Pulaski County
attorney Fred Neikirk.  On Thursday he pleaded guilty, was fined $25, and
immediately had his conviction voided.  His attorney was Larry Whittaker.
Trooper Dick has been rumored to be involved in marijuana production and
marketing for several years.  See 861126.

901207, Lexington, KY.  Former Fayette County Kentucky Sheriff Lonas Taulbee
loses an appeal on conspiracy to traffic in cocaine.  His grounds were that
since he got caught before he was actually able to have the cocaine planted in
the car of his Chief Deputy, he obviously was not distributing cocaine.
Appeals on the charges of theft, misfeasance, and malfeasance for stealing from
his office also failed.

910108~, St Regis, suburb of Louisville, KY, KET?  St Regis policeman Bersot is
accused of planting drugs & guns on David Trigley(sp?).  Trigley's crime was to
date the cop's ex-wife.  Captain Eppeley deplored the accusation.

910213, Detroit, MI, NPR.  William Hart, the Police Chief of Detroit, MI, is
accused of embezzlement and tax fraud for diverting 2.5M$ from the Police
Department undercover narcotics fund to his own private businesses.  Chief Hart
is sentenced to suspension with pay.  The Mayor deplores this racist attack on
the Black community.  /Similar charges have previously been made in Sep 88 and
Dec 89.  On 920827 they made it stick, 10 years' worth.

910306, IN, KET.  Barbara Grier (or is it in Grier, IN?) is listed in serious
condition after the cops invaded her house to arrest her boyfriend.  The shot
was meant for the dog, but missed, hitting her in the stomach.

910522, Detroit, MI, Paul Harvey.  10 cops and the niece of the mayor are
arrested in an Detroit, MI, FBI sting.  They thought that they were taking
payoffs from the real drug dealers.

910530, Cleveland, OH, KYnet.  30 police officials are caught in a FBI sting on
drugs and gambling.  This was reported by a Cleveland TV station, but no
officials will make any official statements.  MacNeil/Lehrer said that 47 cops
including 30 current police officers, 4 former officers, and 13 others provided
security services for illegal gambling and incidentally drug distribution, over
two years.

910619, Frankfort, KY, KET.  5 marijuana plants were found growing in an
apartment owned by KY drug czar Faulkner.  This time they believed the landlord
when he said that he did not know of this activity and had no way of knowing.
60 more plants were found in another Frankfort indoor harvest.

910712, London, KY, KYnet.  In the trial of Jonathan Mann etc, evidence showed
that informant David Richardson was paid $77,000 by the FBI for salary &
expenses.  His previous career was a marijuana dealer.

910716, London, KY, WSFC.  John Quinn (or maybe Flynn?) of Lebanon, OH is
Jonathan Mann's attorney.  Mann has had a jailhouse conversion, and now has
found God, who should forgive all his sins.  Mann gave an interview to a
Lexington newspaper, but this was declared insufficient to grant a mistrial.

910718, London, KY, WKYM.  In the Mann et al trial, David Richardson is alleged
to have killed fellow agents Doug & Brenda (Davidson?).  But he passed a FBI
lie detector test, and that's that.  These allegations are adjudged to be
irrelevant and not admissible as evidence.

910719, Nicholasville, KY, KYnet.  Former Lexington cop Murphy pleaded guilty
to suffocating his wife and was given 20 years.

910731, London, KY, WSEK.  Jonathan Mann etc trial prosecution finished.
James [not David] Richardson of Owsley Co given as the marijuana dealer who
cooperated with the FBI.  The judge is Siler.

910816, London, KY, KNN.  Late today a verdict was delivered in the drug
conspiracy trial of Lee County Sheriff Jonathan Mann and Associates.  I think
that 5 of 6 were convicted on one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine,
but reports are very unclear.  Sheriff Dean Spencer of Breathitt Co was the odd
man.  Five were convicted of conspiracy of extortion, and three were convicted
of conspiracy to distribute cocaine.

910821, Gridley, IL, Paul Harvey News.  Judge Mark Dalton was found by Federal
Drug Agents to have a commercial marijuana garden in his back yard.

910826, Laurel Co, KY, WSEK.  The Robert Foley, age 56, of Harlan, alleged to
have recently killed two brothers (& Harry Lynn Vaughn) and dumped their bodies
into Sinking Creek is a FBI informant, according to an Ohio lawyer.  A Federal
judge issues a gag order on the subject.  Foley's father and wife are arrested
and alleged to have intimidated witnesses.

911029, Laurel Co, KY, KNN.  Robert Foley, 39, is arrested & pleads not guilty
for the murder of four people found entombed in an abandoned septic tank since
1989.  This was on a farm at Bald Rock, Laurel Co, owned by his father, and
formerly owned by ___________, also alleged to have been murdered by Foley.
Victims include Kimberly Bowersods (?) 20, of Ohio; and Calvin Reynolds, 22, of
Laurel Co, KY.  See also 910826 for rumor that Foley is a FBI protected
informant.  Note that Foley had aged -17 years during this unfortunate
incident.

911101, Laurel Co, KY, WSEK.  Ron Pool, FBI handler for Operation Walking
Short, the Jonathan Mann case, attempted to influence Judge Watson to release
Robert Foley on murder charges.

920130, Laurel Co, KY, WSEK.  Robert Foley was being handled by FBI agent Ron
Poole at the marijuana arrest of Larry Vaughn.

910924, Lexington, KY, KNN.  Gregory Drake Wahl, a Fayette County Sheriff's
Deputy, was arrested Monday for selling 1/4 pound of marijuana within 1000 feet
of a school.

911002, Clinton Co, KY, WMKZ, WKYM.  Following a two year undercover
investigation, the FBI arrested David M Stonecipher, 47; John Henry Cravens, 45;
Anthony "Tony" Seratto, 39; and was attempting to find Paul A Brown; on charges
of conspiracy to distribute marijuana.  The break came with a $14K sale by
Stonecipher the previous Tuesday & Wednesday to a KSP agent.  This Duvall
Valley operation was a marijuana clearinghouse, exporting to GA, OH, IL.  The
FBI does not usually investigate mid-level drug dealers, but this was an
exception.  Capt Gary Lusher of the Bowling Green SP and Terry O'Connor of the
FBI publicized the bust.  Seratto is an 14 year veteran of the Albany police,
and was charged with use of a firearm in a drug offense, an well as conspiracy.

911030, Breathitt Co, KY, KNN.  After a two month investigation, Mike Goff of
the Kentucky National Guard working in The Governor's Marijuana Task Force, is
among 31 arrested for marijuana trafficking.

920504, The Nation, Alexander Cockburn, p582.  A drug & gun trafficking
operation thru Mena in western Arkansas was protected by Federal officials.  A
1983 IRS drug smuggling & money laundering investigation by the Arkansas State
Police, prime investigator Russell Welch, uncovered CIA connections, and was
warned off by the FBI.  Arkansas state agencies brokered loans to associated
companies and interfered with investigations.  Terry Reed was a pilot & contra
trainer.

920509, Presidio Co, CA, Paul Harvey.  The former Presidio County CA Sheriff is
busted for cocaine trafficking.  But there is no Presidio County in
California.  But Sheriff Rick Thompson of Presidio County, Texas, and his
business partner Robert Chambers (a Senator?) have been sentenced to life in
prison for cocaine smuggling according to Frontline, "What Happened to the Drug
War?", 930206.  I was really impressed by Sheriff Thompson's television adv for
his tollfree drug smuggler hotline, 800 BE-ALERT.  Apparently they were caught
when another business partner reported them to the real cops.

920617, Florida, KNN.  Florida Sheriffs have been shaking down people for multi
millions of dollars under the guise of drug forfeiture.  The people were never
charged, but they never complained either.  The rat got out of the bag when a
woman was relieved of her Federal hurricane relief check.  Rumors have it that
this is a common practice everywhere.

920806, Kentucky, WMKZ.  Operation Walking Short continues.  Former Lee County
Sheriff Jonathan Mann is accused of taking $40,000 in payoffs from phony drug
dealers.  The Feds are confiscating $132,000 in property as drug profits.
Meanwhile, Sheriff Mann is serving 24 years 4 months in prison.  Wolfe County
Deputy Sheriff Wilson Stone was sentenced to 10 years 1 month.

920807, Nashville, TN, WKYU.  Circuit Court Judge Thomas Brothers is indicted
at Nashville TN for his part in laundering $1.3million in cocaine profits into
several corporations.  Also indicted are Russell Brothers, nephew of The Judge,
and G Thomas Newell, their attorney.

920809, Clay Co, KNN.  Marijuana claims another young victim.  Melissa K
Cotton (20) of Patterson, New Jersey, a Ft Campbell soldier, was killed in Clay
Co, KY, as part of The Governor's Marijuana Task Force (GMTF).  She was a
passenger in a fuel tanker truck which ran off the road.  The shoulder
collapsed, and the truck rolled down a hill and into a tree.  The truck was in
the area supporting helicopters searching for marijuana.  The claim was made on
several newscasts that "The Army is not heavily involved in marijuana
eradication".  The GMTF score so far this year is about a half million plants.

920825, Floyd Co, KY, KNN.  Floyd County Kentucky Deputy Sheriff Larry Newsome
(45) plea bargains guilty to one of five counts of drug trafficking.  He was
charged with selling pills to an undercover agent.  This must have happened a
while ago, since a trial was scheduled for tomorrow.

920826, Louisville, KY, many including KNN, KET, WLKY, WAVE, WHAS.  Four law
officers are arrested on charges of violating the civil rights of Ricky Lee
Pardu by planting cocaine and a silenced pistol in his car.  Jefferson County
Deputy Sheriff Ron Pike was the mastermind of the operation.  Saint Regis
Police Captain Gary Epperly was the operations chief, and Saint Regis Policeman
James Goodman his assistant.  They were hired by Jefferson County Deputy
Sheriff George Tingley, who supplied the cocaine.  Pardu was arrested by
Epperly and Goodman on 1 Nov 90.  David Tingley, Charles Bookout, and John
Bursoe were also involved.  Epperly and Goodman were also questioned in the
murder of State Policeman Johnny Eddrington with his own gun in Laurel County,
but have not been charged.  Pardu was believed because he was an informant
passing information on activities of Special Security Services, an operation of
the officers located on the Rest Haven Cemetery property.  See 930225, 930723

920827, Detroit, MI, Paul Harvey.  Detroit Police Chief William Hart is
sentenced to 10 years for embezzlement and tax evasion for stealing millions of
dollars which was supposed to have been used for undercover drug buys.

920829, Clinton Co, KY, KNN.  Anthony Seratto is sentenced to 70 months for
marijuana trafficking.  Not mentioned was his occupation (Albany city cop) or
the disposition of charges of use of a firearm in the commission of conspiracy
to traffic in illegal drugs.

921113, Erlanger, KY, KNN & WSEK.  Inspector David Woods (42) of the Erlanger,
KY (suburb of Cincinnati, OH) police was arrested for selling confiscated
drugs.  The East Kentucky Task Force of DEA, FBI, KSP, ETC, charged Inspector
Woods with drug trafficking and theft of government property after a five to
six month investigation.

921123, Whitesburg, Letcher Co, KY, WKYU, KNN.  Circuit Court Judge Larry
Collins was arrested on five bribery charges for taking $7,000 and some
marijuana in return for protection of a marijuana dealer.  This came after a
one year Grand Jury investigation.  When Judge Collins took over his office in
January 92, he immediately dismissed a Grand Jury which was investigating
corruption.

921212, Louisville, KY, KNN.  A drug sweep in Louisville, KY, catches 24 drug
dealers, including a Jefferson County Deputy Sheriff.  Deputy Gerald LaMotte
Gray was charged with two counts of marijuana trafficking.  Also paraquat has
just been declared safe and efficacious for use on homegrown marijuana.

921218, Comment on Kentucky, KET.  ?  Estep of Lexington Herald-Leader says
that the value of the marijuana crop has been forced below the value of the
tobacco crop in Kentucky this year, which is 900M$.  During the 80's, marijuana
was usually of more value than tobacco, 1B$ in some years.  Most is produced in
southeastern Kentucky, Clay, Leslie, Laurel, Harlan, Whitley, McCreary, Wayne,
Clinton counties.  Prices this year are $1200 to $2600 per pound.  Judge
Collins has been suspended with pay after continuing to hold court after his
arrest on bribery charges.  Al Smith speculates as how the drug trade has
caused a lot of corruption.

921226, Russell Co, KY, WSEK.  Matthew Gene Roy, Russell Co KY Magistrate is
arrested in Lake Charles, LA, for marijuana trafficking in a "routine traffic
stop".

921230, Eastern KY, KNN.  The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Operation
Walking Short convictions of five Eastern Kentucky cops on assorted drug
trafficking conspiracy charges.  It does admit that maybe the punishment of
Omer Noe was too harsh.

930127, Miami, FL, WSFC (ABC?).  Three customs agents and an FBI agent are
charged with drug trafficking, bribery, and money laundering in Miami, FL.

930128, Lexington, KY, KET.  Former Lexington Police Officer Danny Murphy has
his charges of use of a machine gun while drug trafficking overturned in the
6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, OH.  He still is in prison for
murdering his wife.  In a personal conversation with DPB at Rainbow 93, an
individual volunteered that his brother-in-law was one of the fronts for
Murphy, holding title to Murphy's estate in alternate years.  Murphy beat the
machine gun rap because the gun was in the attic and the pot was in a freezer
in the basement, this being a sufficient distance that he could not be using
his machine gun in perpetration of a drug crime.

930201.  Ex-Miami cop Armando Garcia is on the FBI most-wanted list.  This may
be one of the Miami's Finest who was given a mistrial for robbing and killing
cocaine smugglers.  See 870202.

930209, Beattyville, Lee Co, KY, WMKZ.  Beattyville Chief of Police Omer Noe of
Lee County, KY, is resentenced to 12 years 7 months in prison for his part in
in the Operation Walking Short drug smuggling.  The Appeals judge was Eugene
Siler, who had originally tried Noe.  Not that Noe doesn't deserve another 12
consecutive life sentences for hypocrisy, but has a judge ever overturned
himself on appeal?

930225, Louisville, KY, KNN.  Jefferson County policeman Ron Pike is convicted
of possession of two automatic weapons.  No mention of any connection with his
planting drugs and weapons on Ricky Lee Pardu who was informing on their
security service. See 920826, 930723

930318, Lexington, KY, KET.  Former Lexington, KY, police officer Danny Murphy
is convicted of possession of a pistol while marijuana trafficking and
sentenced to five years in prison.  He was formerly acquitted of possession of a
machine gun while engaged in his moonlight business.  See 930128 & 910719 &
900822 & 900820 & 900816 & 900608.

930120, St Regis, KY, WKYU.  St Regis Police Captain Epperly pleads guilty to
planting drugs to facilitate the arrest of an inconvenient criminal.  It is
unclear whether this concerns the case of David Trigley or that of Ricky
Pardu.  See 920826 & 910108.

930409, Lexington, KY, KET.  Former (fired in 1979 for insubordination after 8
years of service) Lexington Police Officer Bill Canan is arrested by Federal
Marshals on charges of drug trafficking and intimidation of a witness.  Officer
Canan allegedly bought 24 oz of cocaine and then threatened to kill Robert
Scott, his supplier turned Federal Witness, if he squealed.  This is part of an
investigation ongoing for 1½ years.  Police Chief Walsh vows that he is
"finally gonna clean up the Good Ole Boy Network" [his words].  See 850912,
930716.

930416, Lexington, KY, WSEK.  Ella Flynn, mother of Melanie Flynn who was
disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1977, claims police ineptitude &
indifference.  Mrs Flynn claims that she gave police many details of names,
places, times, etc, which were ignored.  She also claims that part of the case
file was disappeared.  Chief Walsh denies all these false allegations.  This
re-surfaced upon the arrest of Bill Canan former Lexington Police Officer on
cocaine trafficking charges.  Rumors at the time of Melanie Flynn's
disappearance were that she knew too much about drug trafficking.  See 850912,
870112, 871123, 890225, 900820, 930409, Sally Denton, The Bluegrass Conspiracy,
Doubleday, 1990.

930416, Covington, KY, WSEK.  Undercover Narcotics Officer Randy Sebastian is
charged with perjury for lying to obtain a search warrant on Dr Patricia
Canfield.  Officer Sebastian resigned when confronted.

930421, Lexington, KY, KET.  Former Lexington Kentucky Police Officer Bill
Canan is indicted on 14 counts.  Charges include drug possession and
distribution in '88, possession of a fake DEA ID, and possession of a pen gun and
machine gun.  His lawyer is Fred Peters.  One of the character witnesses at the
bail hearing was the same as for Danny Murphy.  (See 900608, 900816, 900820,
900822, 910719, 930128, 930318).  The Judge had enuf sense not to pay any
attention to him this time.  Officer Canan is ajudged to be a danger to the
community and an escape risk.

930528, Christian County, KY, WKYU.  Sheriff William Dillard has his conviction
overturned on appeal.  Thus he really did not partake in cocaine trafficking or
take bribes for protection of the drug industry in his dominion.  See 900118,
900823, 901011.

930624, Paducah, KY, WKYU.  Captain William Gorden of the Narco Squad is fired
for recording and reporting corruption in the drug unit by city manager
Pennington.  A whistle blower lawsuit is filed.

930626, Catletsburg, KY, WMKZ.  Timothy Woods (39), a Kentucky Department of
Forestry Ranger, is arrested for cultivation of marijuana, tending a patch on a
hillside, while on duty in uniform.

930716, Lexington, KY, KET.  Former Lexington Police Officer and accused
cocaine trafficker Bill Canan has his 13 counts (didn't it used to be 14
counts?) dropped to 6 counts.  Apparently he is still charged with threatening
to kill a confidential informant.  See 850912, 930409

930722, Paducah, KY, WSEK.  The Western Kentucky Narcotics Unit "needs to
restore credibility", and be moved out of Paducah city hall.  The corruption
ridden operation was funded by $220K in state money and $73K in local taxpayer
extortions.

930723, Louisville, KY, WHAS-KET.  Louisville, KY, police officers Ron Pike and
James Goodman are convicted of planting cocaine on a Federal informant, George
[wasn't it Ricky Lee?] Pardu.  George Tingley was found not guilty.
See 920826, 930225

930803, Kentucky, KNN?  Just a piece of a story about someone agreeing to
resign from the State Police in face of corruption charges.

930806, Harlan Co, KY, WMKZ.  Howard Taylor, Harlan County Kentucky Jailor, is
accused if stealing two pounds of marijuana from the Sheriff's evidence room.

930824, KY, WKYU.  An outfit called "Kentuckians for Freedom, Inc" has been
formed to combat militarization of The War on Marijuana.  Also, Gary Shepherd,
victim of The War, was given an address of Brodhead, not Mt Vernon.

930824, Whitesburg, KY, KNN.  Letcher County Circuit Court Judge Larry Collins
pleads guilty to bribery for extorting drugs and money from James Braddock.
Several other charges are dropped.

930825, New York City, Paul Harvey.  Calling themselves The Morgue Boys (their
meeting place was in an old morgue), 35 of New York City's Finest preyed on
drug dealers, robbing them of cocaine, guns and money.

930917, Louisville, Jefferson Co, KY, many.  Jim Greene, former High Sheriff of
Jefferson County, Kentucky, goes for a six month vacation at Maxwell AFB (AL?)
for tax evasion.  Also $128,000 fine.  He seemed bitter about it, complaining
that he had made a deal for no prison time.  He declared that, "My debt to
society will be completely paid after this six months." This contradicts the
three year probation.  All they could make stick to Al Capone was tax evasion,
too.

931019, London, KY, WSEK.  Former Lexington, KY, Police Officer Bill Canan's
trial started on 12 Oct.  Today he took the witness stand and swore that he had
never engaged in the trafficking of cocaine!!  More to come, I expect.  See
850912, 930409, 930716.  He was eventually convicted on the cocaine trafficking
and witness intimidation charges & not guilty on the weapons charge.

931104, Kentucky, KET-WAVE.  Joseph Shawn Kelley and three other National Guard
members of GMTF plead guilty to padding their expense accounts in last summer's
War on Drugs.

931108, Evansville, IN, WKYU.  A trial starts today at Vanderburgh Circuit
Court for Richard Witlow (38), an Evansville, IN, narcotics agent.  Witlow is
charged with attempted bribery, attempted theft, and theft.  Witlow solicited
$100,000 to disappear evidence from Harris Roach, father of Tocio Roach, who
was convicted of cocaine trafficking along with his wife.  The FBI was present
at the cash pickup.  Witlow is also accused of stealing $6500, a semiautomatic
pistol, and a gold bracelet while searching the home of Edward Cooper.

931129, USN&WR, p37.  "At play in the fields of the spies".  A somewhat
confusing story about a CIA operation in Caracas.  CIA case officer Mark
McFarlin cooperated with Gen Ramón Guillén Dávila, the head of the National
Guard antinarcotics unit.  Guillén told DEA & CIA officials in Nov 1991 that he
had cooperated with two "unauthorized" shipments of cocaine to the United
States.

931215, ???, Paul Harvey.  Some cops somewhere got caught stealing money from
drug dealers.  Chief Kelley declares that he will root out corruption.

931216, Lexington, KY, WSEK.  Lexington Police Officer Bill Canan
has his convictions on cocaine trafficking, intimidation of
witnesses, and carrying a false DEA badge upheld.

931228, NYC, NY, NPR.  Judge Milton Mullins Commission releases a preliminary
report on New York City Police Corruption, drug trafficking, police brutality,
etc.  Judge Clean Hand decries the "Blue wall of silence".

940104, Lexington, KY, KEY.  Horrace Inman, 15 year veteran of the Lexington
Police Force, is charged with felony possession of cocaine.  The Police
Department has no further comment.

Recommended reading:

Susan Adler, Wheeling and Dealing.  Univ of Colorado at Boulder study of drug
entrepreneurs in southern California.  The Nation, V249, p341.

Christic Institute, Inside the Shadow Government, The Christic Institute, 1324
North Capitol St NW, Wash, DC 20002.  202/797-8106 15.00 Ongoing CIA drug
smuggling etc.

Leslie Cockburn, Out of Control: The Story of the Reagan Administration's
Secret War in Nicaragua, the Illegal Arms Pipeline, and the Contra Drug
Connection, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987.  Alleges that the CIA allowed drug
traffickers to use its airfields to import cocaine and marijuana into the
United States in return for the drug dealers giving money and arms to the
Nicaraguan contras.

Leslie Cockburn, "Drugs, Guns and the CIA", PBS Frontline program on 17 May 88.

Sally Denton, The Bluegrass Conspiracy, Doubleday, 1990.  Documents links
between Lexington Kentucky police, politicians, patricians and major drug
trafficking.

Steven Emerson, Secret Warriors: Inside the Covert Military Operations of the
Reagan Era.  (Putnam, 1988).  U.  S.  News & World Report, p31, Nov 16, 1987.

Edward J Epstein, Agency of Fear: Opiates and Political Power in America.  G
Putnam's Sons, 1977.  Connections between the Nixon administration and heroin
trafficking.

Ryan Freemantle, The Fix: Inside the World Drug Trade.  352p.  1986.  St.
Martin's Press.  Illegal drug business.  British?  Monitor radio.

Ronald Hamowy, Dealing with Drugs: Consequences of Government Control, Pacific
Research Institute for Public Policy.  $12.95 Sinsemilla Tips, V8#3p27.

Henrick Krueger (translated by Jerry Meldon), The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs,
Intelligence, and International Fascism.  South End Press, 1980.  240pp.  ISBN
0-89608-031-5p.  Well documented CIA and DEA encouragement of heroin
importation from Asia and Mexico.

Jonathan Kwitny, The Crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money and
the CIA, WW Norton, c1987.  Mother Jones, Aug/Sep 87, p17.

Martin A Lee and Bruce Shlain, Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties
Rebellion.  Grove Press.  The Nation, Sep 5, 1987, p 189.

Rensselaer W Lee III, White Labyrinth: Cocaine and Political Power.
Transaction Press.  256pp.  The economies of Columbia, Peru, and Bolivia have
been captured by the drug trade.

Michael Levine, ???.  1990.  Interview on 23 April 90 MacNeil-Lehrer.  25 year
DEA agent claims that 50 tons of cocaine per year were shipped thru Honduras to
USA to fund the War on Communists.

Stanley J Marks, A Year in the Lives of the Damned: Reagan, Reaganism, 1986!
Bureau of International Affairs.  Reveals 1980 agreement to sell arms to Iran
and protect drug smugglers.

Jonathan Marshall, Drug Wars, 1990 Cohan & Cohen.  The connection between
Mexican drug underworld & CIA.

Jonathan Marshall, Peter Dale Scott, and Jane Hunter.  The Iran Contra
Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era.  South End,
Boston, 313pp, $11.  Drug trafficking, gun running, government toppling, and
assassination.  Ref: Utne Reader, Nov/Dec 87, p122.

Al McCoy, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia 1972.  Harper & Row

James Mills, The Underground Empire, Doubleday, $22.95 Newsweek, July 28, 1986,
p65.  Big time drug smuggling business and efforts of "Centac" to neutralize
it.  Purportedly true, but absolutely NO references nor documentation.

David Musto, The American Disease: Origins of Narcotic Control.  Utne Reader,
#32p78

Peter Dale Scott & Jonathan Marshall, Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the
CIA in Central America.  1992, Univ of California Press, Berkeley CA.  $13.

Elaine Shannon, Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, US Lawmen, & the War America
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Sam Staley, Drug Policy and the Decline of American Cities, Transaction, 1992.
WSJ, Aug 13 92, A13.  War on Drugs escalates urban violence & removes youth
from the legitimate economy.

Stutman, Deep Cover.  Confessions of an ex-DEA agent.

Arnold S Trebach, The Great Drug War.  Professor of Justice at American
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Leon Ziegler, La Suiss Lave Plus Blanc, Editions du Seuil, Paris, France.
Swiss money laundering.  Alleges that Iran paid for arms from the Iran-contra
conspiracy partly in heroin & morphine base.  ACRES USA, Apr 90, p21.


What had at first seemed to be merely a can of worms has,
upon closer examination, proven to be a barrel of vipers.