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Former Law Officer Gets Nearly 5 Years For Drug Trafficking
Eddie R. Cole | Mobile Register | 07/27/2006

A former deputy of the Fulton County, Ga., Sheriff's Department was sentenced Tuesday in Mobile to 57 months in federal prison.

Dwayne Turner, a Mobile native, received the sentence from U.S. District Judge Charles R. Butler on a count of conspiracy to distribute marijuana.

Turner, while serving as a deputy, was arrested in Montgomery by FBI agents on Oct. 12, 2005, on drug trafficking charges stemming from an investigation involving the sale of marijuana and cocaine in the Mobile area.

He sold drugs more than a half-dozen times to a Mobile man who was arrested in April 2005, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court. Turner, who worked at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, sold an estimated eight pounds of marijuana over a span of six occasions and sold cocaine to a convicted drug dealer named Damon Hatch, according to the affidavit.

According to the criminal complaint, Hatch identified Turner as his supplier. He told authorities in his affidavit that he met Turner in 2000 through their common interest in dogs.

Additional counts brought against Turner related to alleged conspiracies to possess and distribute cocaine were dismissed.

"Sadly, this law enforcement officer betrayed the public trust and sold out to the lure of drug money," said U.S. Attorney Deborah Rhodes in a statement issued by the U.S. Department of Justice. "His conviction and sentencing show that no one is above the law, and we will act to maintain the highest integrity of and confidence in our public servants."

Prior to his arrest, Turner had been in trouble within the Fulton County Sheriff's Department. He was a supervising officer when he, and four other deputies, allowed a work-release inmate and rap artist to shoot a music video in the maximum security wing of the downtown Atlanta facility, according to a June 2004 Associated Press report.

 

kinghelwig

you play,you pay,there alway's comes a time when the piper's due's come due,with all the wierd law's and all the attitudes on all aspect's of life,it boil's down to,treat people the way you want to be treated,live and let live,help where and when you can,and if you are falsely accused of something,stand up and be counted,if you have been justly accused,then own up,take the punishment,and move on,if you dont agree with a certain point of view that's cool,but opinion's are a dime a dozen,it's action that count's,if a dishonest cop does wrong,he should be held accountable,as we have seen,even president's are not above the law,so being an ex cop in jail I would not want to be in this mans shoe's,people are people,we all are capable of the most horrid of crimes,or the least,but when the time come's to pay the piper,the cost of your own wrong doing,then deal with it.Has anyone realized that we are at the beginning of a third world war,people have become to complacent, I hope wakeup time has finally arrived,the U.S. has to try to maintain their leadership role for no one else,has the freedom left that we do.

king cola

Money is money, they refer to it as drug money but it circulates around the country and the rest of the world but i guess that makes it alright because people don't know who it's been passed through. He sold out for greed, prohibition allows people a chance to take that risk. He probably figured he could make more money selling drugs than he could make bein a honest cop and if that's what he was thinking, he would be right about that, but wrong when it comes to violating the law, especially as a cop. He thought he was safe hiding behind his badge.

dedbr

of the drug war....

There would be no reason for an officer to go bad if it wasn't so lucrative because of prohabition.


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