Officer Arraigned On Drug Charge - (COLUMBUS) -- A corrections officer at a state prison was arraigned today on charges that she tried to bring marijuana into the Pickaway Correctional Institution in Circleville.
The state Highway Patrol says 35-year-old Dinnah Harrisna of Columbus was caught with a half-ounce of pot. Planning to convey drugs into a state prison is a fourth-degree felony.

Thursday, 17 June 1999, at 3:56 p.m.

14 Guilty In Prison Drug Conspiracy - (ROANOKE)

-- Fourteen defendants have pleaded guilty in a conspiracy to sell marijuana inside a southwest Virginia state prison. Three guards admitted smuggling drugs into the Bland Correctional Center, and family members of two inmatesa admitted supplying the drugs. Prosecutors say the inmates paid for the pot with money orders sent by friends and relatives. A federal judge is still considering whether the money order scheme used to pay for the drugs constitutes money-laundering. Eight additional defendants have requested a jury trial. Authorities estimate 50-thousand-dollars worth of marijuana passed through the Bland prison in the past three-years.

" Much virtue in Herbs, little in men" George Washington

police beat columns


  January 26, 1997          Section:    NEWS
  SEATTLE TIMES NEWS SERVICES

        Calif. congressman's son arrested on drug charges
 
     WASHINGTON - The Drug Enforcement Administration arrested the son of
 Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, R-Calif., earlier this month for allegedly
 flying an airplane loaded with more than 400 pounds of marijuana into a
 small airport near Boston.
 Todd  Cunningham, 27, a San Diego bartender, pleaded not guilty to
 marijuana trafficking and conspiracy to violate drug laws.
 Authorities said that on Jan. 17, they saw kilogram-sized bricks of
 marijuana unloaded from a twin-engine turbo plane at the Lawrence
 Municipal Airport in North Andover, Mass.
 
    Cunningham was released Wednesday after posting $25,000 cash bail.
 
    The elder Cunningham, a decorated combat pilot and flight instructor,
 is known in the House for his fiery rhetoric and strong stands on
 illegal immigration and drug trafficking. He has criticized President
 Clinton for a "cavalier attitude" toward the problem.

excerpts from the Mukilteo Tribune
1. 09/09/97 *juvenile incident*
  On sept. 9, an officer answered a call in the 5000 block of Harbour Pointe Blvd, responding to a security guard who had found two juveniles in the woods between two Harbour Pointe Schools. The security guard had found three packs of cigars, a pack of cigarettes, a small retractable razor knife and an Swiss army knife.
  The Swiss army knife had on it what looked to be marijuana residue.
  The juveniles told the officer they found thetobacco products behind Payless. When the officer asked them about the residue on the knife, one boy said it had been on there more than a year.
2. 10/02/97 *suspicious photographs* A women in the 11700 block of state road 525 reported to the police on Sept 13 that she had found some suspicious photos while developing film. She believed they were photos of a marijuana growing operation. The officer tried to contact the owner of the film by telephone but was unsuccessful.
1. condensed from the Seattle P-I 10/20/97 *Yule glow in TV cabinet goes to pot* MEDFORD OREGON --- Kyron grow told a judge that the marijuana plant found growing in his television cabinet last June was being rasied to be a Christmas tree.
  But Jackson County Circuit Judge Patricia Cain put a damper on his holiday spirit Tuesday.
  "NOW YOUR CHRISTMAS PRESENT IS BEING A CONVICTED FELON" the judge replied.
2. excerpted from the Seattle P-I 11/13/97 *Bong found on restricted Hanford Property* RICHLAND WASH. --- A marijuana pipe has been found discovered on restricted part of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The pipe - a bong - was found by a worker Wednesday in a parking lot in the 200 East area of the spawling nuclear weapons site. Benton County Undersheriff Bill Morey said the bong probably belonged to a Hanford worker or someone working for the various subcontractors helping with the cleanup.
  "You need a badge to get to that point" Morey said. Hanford spokespeman Craig Kuhlman said that the worker wasn't sure what it was. A sheriff's deputy indentified the object. Drugs and drug paraphernalia are banned from the Hanford site, which contains the nation's largest volume of nuclear waste.
3. excerpted from the Seattle P-I 12/03/97 Why smuggle pot to the NW? AUTHORITIES PUZZLED; THERE'S PLENTY HERE!
  on December 2nd a sailboat from Thailand named OK TEDI dumped around 5000 thousand of lbs of marijuana, was set on fire and sank off of Cape Flattery.
  The Coast guard was said to have rescued about 3,800 lbs of the Thai weed.
  "We have so much homegrown ( marijuana) that goes undetected of the same or better quality, it's kind of befuddling to us why (Thai marijuana)would be coming into Seattle" DEA spokesperson JULIANNA WEST
4. COP SELLS POT TO SUPPORT IMPRISONED SISTERS CHILDREN PORTLAND: SEATTLE-P-I 11/14/97 Officer facing marijuana charge granted lower bail A judge has lowered the bail for a police officer accused of dealing marijuana. Multnomah County Circut Judge Micheal Marcus lowered Steven Regalado's bail from more than $1 million to $92,500. Marcus also ruled that Regalado will be released pending trial if police find he was not involved in other criminal activity. Prosecutors objected, saying the officer has threatened a witness. A court official found that Regalado had built up huge debts, was depressed over the shooting of a fellow officer and was overwhelmed with the care of his mother and the children of his imprisoned sister
  How about writing a letter to the editor of the PORTLAND OREGONIAN about how the war on drugs is corrupting our police forces
5. WHY COPS LIE IN DRUG CASES
6. read about the DRUNK DRIVING COP WHO CRASHED HER CAR THOUGH 13 BARRIERSnear Northgate and driving the wrong way, causing a head-on collision with a northbound pickup.