Bellatrix

South Plymouth Task Force Gets Grant

By JENNET TEBARNES |South Coast Today.com | October 6, 2004.

Police investigators in Lakeville, Rochester and Middleboro have received a $12,000 state grant for drug enforcement.

The three towns make up the South Plymouth County Task Force, which was responsible for the July arrest of a man accused of selling cocaine to campers at Knight and Look Campground in Rochester.

The task force focuses primarily, but not exclusively, on narcotics work.
Lakeville Police Chief Mark Sorel said money from the grant will be used to pay overtime salaries for investigations, to buy equipment and to provide "buy money" for undercover drug investigations.

Bellatrix; holy SH*T, these assholes are actually making the American taxpayer pay for their BRIBES and SNITCHES?? And how is this money accounted for? Is it ever? Your tax dollars at work, people. Isn't this how crap like Tulia happens?

All three towns collaborated on the competitive grant offered to multi-jurisdictional task forces such as theirs, Rochester Police Chief Paul H. Magee said in a press release.

In the Knight and Look investigation, officers from the task force posed as campers and bought cocaine from John P. Houghton Jr. of New Bedford as the man made his nightly security rounds on a golf cart, according to police records.

At the campground, the officers reported the odor of burning Marijuana coming from another campsite and arrested four New Bedford residents for possession.

Bellatrix; and article about crooked cops wouldn't be complete without the "I smell burning Marijuana" line. I thought they didn't arresst people for possession. What a bunch of assholes - posing as campers to harass some harmless jerk who happens to be selling something that people want to buy. I wonder how much property crime went down while these pricks were wasting their time playing Yogi and Bubu. And the government rewards them handsomely for their efforts. Buy money? Yeah, I think we all know what's really getting bought here.

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