Cops getting high?

[Norrath]

i dont even need to read this thread, i know the answer is yes it's true.

i saw a documentary on the hells angels and some bad guys gone ATF special agent type, infiltrated their higher ranks and got close to some big wigs, all the while toting firearms and doing drugs. They had a special guy who would go overboard with the drug use just to prove himself.. et al.

barry cooper said they cant do drugs, and they can allow illegal things to happen, but if they supply drugs to a sting or something, they CANNOT AT ALL allow the drugs to enter/reenter the system.

all in the name of the investigation. your normal jumpsuit police? i bet they havent dabbled in years

also wanted to say, when youre in the industry long enough, you dont need to be a lawyer to know what you can and cant get away with - sickening.

 

[Dr.Dank]

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2009/feb/28/good-cop-or-bad-cop-intertwined-lifes-naples-cop-a/

check this out i used to smoke with that guy Loyal Daily read the story you'll be amazed.


Former Naples police officer Lonnie Kennedy has been accused by a confidential informant of robbing drug dealers, including during this arrest of John Bazile. Kennedy is accused of taking crack from Bazile during the arrest. Kennedy says this video shows he was bit by the department’s dog during the arrest and was nowhere near Bazile. Watch »


Lindsay Wyatt

Loyal Daily
Documents
Signed letter from Lonnie Kennedy regarding allegations (.pdf)
Timeline of events in Lonnie Kennedy case (.pdf)
Warrant for Officer Lonnie Kennedy's arrest denied by SAO (.pdf)
Warrant for Officer Lonnie Kennedy's arrest (.pdf)
Read the report from Justice Strategies
NAPLES — Former Naples police officer Lonnie Kennedy turned the key to the jam-packed, yellow moving truck and gave the roaring diesel engine some gas.

The only thing not packed in the truck on Tuesday morning were Kennedy’s career and what’s left of his reputation.

Loyal Daily has a career in crime, dating back to the mid-1980s, and doesn’t have much of a reputation -- not a good one, at least.

A week earlier, Daily, a bear of a man in an orange jail jumpsuit, stood before Collier Circuit Judge Frank Baker to accept a plea agreement for stealing from Wal-Mart in March 2008. He escaped with a lighter sentence, down from at least five years to just a year-and-a-half.

“Mr. Scuderi, this is way down,” an obviously surprised Baker told Assistant State Attorney Dave Scuderi, the prosecutor who agreed to the deal.

The lives of Kennedy, a family man and longtime cop, and Daily, a crook with a drug habit, have been intertwined since Daily began working as a confidential informant, setting up drug dealers for Naples police to take down.

However, after his March arrest, Daily told investigators with the Collier County Sheriff’s Office that during their time together, he and Kennedy rolled several drug dealers, stole their drugs and burglarized their homes.

Kennedy denies the allegations.

Both the Sheriff’s Office and Naples police opened investigations, which are ongoing.

Is Kennedy actually a criminal who fooled everyone, including close friends, with a country-boy charm? Or did the Sheriff’s Office bite on a convenient but convincing story cooked up by Daily to get himself out of years behind bars?

* * * * *

Growing up in Virginia, Lonnie Ray Kennedy Jr. never dreamed of being a cop.

Initially he pursued a career in air conditioning, heating and refrigeration. But with little work available in his field in the early 1990s, Kennedy switched careers, taking a road patrol gig with the city of Danville (Va.) Police Department.

In 2000, Kennedy and his wife left Virginia for a job in Naples.

He left in good standing, said Lt. Col. Tom Brown, Danville deputy chief.

“We have no record of anything negative about him,” Brown said.

Kennedy, now 41, worked on road patrol for the Naples police department until tapped to be a detective in the street crimes unit in January 2007. Neither Kennedy nor his young partner, Michael Clausen, had ever worked as a detective before, records indicate.

A three-page list of Kennedy’s training records shows that he received little training on being a detective or dealing with confidential informants.

“Based on the records of his training courses, there were no vice/narcotics specific courses which Lonnie Kennedy was sent to,” department spokesman Michael Herman said.

* * * * *

Born in Kentucky, Loyal Edward Daily III was raised in Collier County primarily by his mother, Marilyn Daily.

“I call him the turd,” she said jokingly. “He’s a bad boy.”

At 42 years old, Daily has been in and out of the Collier County jail most of his adult life. Since 1984, he has been convicted on several counts of burglary, grand theft, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, resisting arrest, and drug sales.

“Loyal Daily is a well-known criminal in Collier County,” said Chief Jim Williams of the Collier County Sheriff’s Office.

Nowadays the 6-foot-3, 260-pound Daily resembles a football lineman.

But Marilyn Daily said her son hasn’t always been big. In fact, a 1998 mug shot on the Lee County Sheriff’s Office Web site shows a much slimmer Loyal Daily. His mom says it’s the drugs.

“It blows him up like a blimp,” she said.

* * * * *

Kennedy’s and Daily’s lives first collided on a late-September 2007 night inside a Naples Inn motel room, where police were called about possible drug activity.

Police issued Daily’s girlfriend, Lindsay Wyatt, a notice to appear in court for possession of drug paraphernalia. Daily and Wyatt were transported to a local hospital, where Daily inquired about becoming a confidential informant.

Detectives signed up Wyatt, who made a few purchases, but signing up Daily wasn’t so simple.

“He couldn’t testify and his credibility was zero,” Kennedy told the Daily News.

The Naples police department eventually approved Daily as an informant on Oct. 24, 2007.

“He could only do one thing,” Kennedy said. “He could place phone calls and order narcotics.”

And place phone calls he did.

During the next four months, Daily set up several local drug dealers, leading to at least nine arrests and the seizure of more than $7,500 of illegal drugs. Kennedy and Clausen were recommended for the Naples police’s incentive award in December 2007.

Records show that things were looking up for Daily as well. He started working as an informant with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration investigating drug trafficking at a business on Airport-Pulling Road in East Naples, not far from Collier County sheriff’s headquarters.

“I was not aware of that initially at the time it was going on,” Williams said.

* * * * *

Sheriff’s investigators learned what was going on during monitored jail phone calls between Daily and Wyatt, who was charged in December 2007 with contempt of court.

During one conversation, Daily said Kennedy gave him a gun.

“He give me a brand new set of field glasses, a 9 millimeter pistol. He got it out of evidence,” Daily said. “They were destroying it.”

When questioned by Naples police later that month, Daily denied being given a pistol. It was all bravado for Wyatt.

“None of that (stuff) is true,” Daily said. “I was hyping (stuff) up to her, playing, making it look good.”

Naples police searched their property and evidence room that same day. All guns were accounted for.

Daily and Wyatt were arrested on March 4, 2008, after an investigation showed they stole memory cards from a Wal-Mart. After her arrest, Wyatt told investigators that Kennedy gave Daily and her some confidential information they could use to rob drug dealers, and break into their homes.

When asked if they had ever done so, she smiled and said: “We’ll have to talk about that after I get a deal on my charges.”

Wyatt passed a polygraph, reports say.

* * * * *

A “sweet deal” is what Daily was after.

In the weeks after Daily’s arrest, transcripts show the State Attorney’s Office offered him a deal in exchange for information about Kennedy.

“What’s a sweet deal to you, Dave?” Daily asked Scuderi. “You told me the other day when you walked out of there you said ‘You’re looking at a real good, sweet deal.’”

Investigators with the Sheriff’s Office and State Attorney’s Office conducted three interviews with Daily, during which he was given immunity from prosecution. Daily told investigators that after his first deal as an informant, the arrest of John J. Bazile in October 2007, Kennedy left 10 crack rocks in his motel bathroom.

“I think he wrapped them in toilet paper or put them, or put them in a glove, I think a latex glove, I think he put it in a latex glove,” Daily told investigators.

According to Daily, Kennedy gave him drugs after most of the leads that ended with an arrest.

He alleged that on at least two occasions, Kennedy stole drug dealers’ keys and helped him burglarize their homes.

After one of the arrests, a dealer gave officers a fake address -- his mother’s.

Daily said Kennedy drove him to the fake address, and he learned from the dealer’s mother that her son lived in a Poinciana Village apartment, which Daily then burglarized. Daily said in an affidavit that Kennedy served as a look-out.

The dealer told investigators he believed “cops broke into my apartment” with his keys and stole about $14,000 worth of items from a lock box, according to a Collier sheriff’s affidavit.

Daily said he pawned items stolen from the apartment, and gave Kennedy $200 in front of Wyatt and Clausen. According to the investigation, Kennedy later called a friend at the Sheriff’s Office, former Naples cop John Warford, and asked him to see if there was surveillance video from the unreported break-in at the dealer’s home.

“Lonnie said that his snitch may have broken into that place, right, and he asked me to go down there to see if there was any video,” Warford told investigators during an interview. The security camera was inoperable.

Daily said that in November 2007, Kennedy was invited to observe the execution of a search warrant by deputies at a marijuana grow house in Golden Gate Estates, according to an interview.

In a report compiled by the Sheriff’s Office, Kennedy is accused of telling Daily that investigators left 10 to 15 pounds of marijuana on the floor.

Daily said he attempted to burglarize the home with Kennedy’s assistance, but was unsuccessful because people were inside. He then placed a fake 911 call from Kennedy’s car, during which a police radio can be heard in the background, reports said.

Daily also passed a polygraph, reports say.

* * * * *

For most of the past year, Kennedy has been cleaning windows and sweeping floors at the Naples police station — a $62,000-a-year janitor.

His new marching orders came after the Sheriff’s Office began a criminal investigation in March. Kennedy was placed on paid leave, but was brought back to the police station during the summer to do menial work.

There are two investigations into Kennedy’s activities -- a criminal investigation by the Sheriff’s Office and an internal investigation by Naples police.

At the advice of his attorney, Kennedy declined to speak to Sheriff’s Office investigators, though Kennedy did agree to an interview with the Daily News.

Kennedy said he was willing to give his side of the story during his own department’s internal investigation, but says he was never given the chance.

In August, the Sheriff’s Office sent its investigation to the State Attorney’s Office requesting warrants for Kennedy’s arrest on 14 counts of burglary, grand theft, petty theft, dealing in stolen property, and official misconduct.

All the warrants were denied.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office also declined to press charges due to a lack of evidence, according to a Sept. 24 Naples police memo.

Williams said the Sheriff’s Office turned the case over to Naples police to conduct an internal investigation, which is ongoing. He said he stands by his agency’s investigation -- which contends Kennedy was a dirty cop.

“Yes sir, 100 percent,” Williams said of his confidence in the findings of the Sheriff’s Office investigation.

In December, Kennedy sold his home after two years on the market. His wife accepted a job out-of-state awhile back, he said, but they weren’t able to leave because of the investigation.

With the three-month lease on his family’s rented house up at the end of February, Kennedy resigned on Feb. 3 citing “personal and family issues.”

He needed to leave, he said, and didn’t know how long the investigation would drag on.

“It could be another year. They could close it the week after I leave,” he said. “They’re in the driver’s seat.”

Though he declined to give an on-the-record, blow-by-blow refutation of Daily’s claims, Kennedy said there is plenty of evidence that Daily is lying.

For instance, Kennedy said an in-car video from the John Bazile arrest, after which he was accused of giving Daily crack, shows he was bitten by the department’s drug dog during the pursuit, and never came near Bazile. Other officers arrested Bazile and searched him for drugs, while Kennedy says he was transported to the hospital.

After the arrest of another dealer, Daily said that he and Kennedy stole some cocaine and cut the rest with creatine, a white powder used by weightlifters. However, according to Naples police memo from March 2008, initial tests of the cocaine that was placed into evidence showed no trace of creatine.

* * * * *

A “witch hunt” is what John Fry, an attorney for the Fraternal Order of Police union, said the Sheriff’s Office conducted.

“There is not one scintilla of evidence that Kennedy has done anything illegal,” Fry said. “This man’s life has been destroyed trying to protect the residents of Naples.”

Robert Young, the new president of the Naples FOP and Kennedy’s friend, called Kennedy a “great guy” who put too much trust in a career criminal and treated him too much like friend.

“Lonnie was played like a fiddle,” Young said. “He was set up like a bowling pin.”

Williams of the Sheriff’s Office said Kennedy is reaching out to the press and trying to portray himself as a victim. The Daily News started investigating the allegations against Kennedy in the summer 2008. Kennedy learned about the Daily News’ efforts and contacted the newspaper, offering to tell his side of the story.

Another confidential informant, according to a Sheriff’s Office report, told investigators that Kennedy once discussed doing a home-invasion robbery with him, provided him with confidential information, and allowed him to sell drugs in Naples to establish his credibility with other dealers.

“He is making accusations that I find specious, accusatory and without substance, and he can’t back them up,” Williams said of Kennedy’s statements to the Daily News. “They are just a means of him to pretend to be the victim, and that’s just not so.”

* * * * *

With plenty of time alone in his jail cell, Daily said in a jailhouse interview with the Daily News, he has nearly finished penning a book “about stuff going on in Naples” that “might hurt a lot of people.”

When he gets out of prison later this year, Daily said he plans to move to Seattle to start a scaffolding business. He knows he won’t be safe in Naples.

When asked about the information he provided to investigators, Daily denied any knowledge of it.

“I do what I’ve got to do here,” he said.

When asked if he believes Kennedy committed crimes while working as an officer, Daily said “No.”

“If he did, he would have gotten arrested,” Daily said.

Kennedy admits to making dumb mistakes as a detective and being manipulated by Daily, but is adamant he did nothing illegal.

“That’s better than being known as a crooked cop,” he said.

Kennedy said he hopes to find a job in the private sector, but has no interest in another law enforcement job.

After leaving Naples under investigation, he knows he couldn’t get one if he tried.

With his life’s belongings packed into a moving truck, and hundreds of miles of highway in front of him, Kennedy is looking forward.

Still, he said he doesn’t hold a grudge against Daily or anyone else.

“What good would that do me?” he asked. “I just want to move on.”

 

[Scyntra]

ok I have a storie about a cop that smoke...

I was at my at a friends topless car wash business about 10 years ago, was dating one of the girls, anyway me and one of the other guys was going to go fishing after we dropped of the girls. so we were going to roll a few, I sit down at the front desk because the car wash did not open for another 30 min. or so. I got started breaking up some bud a few min. went by and I hear a car pull up. I look out the window to see a cop car on the other side (tinted windows) I quickly raked about 1/2 oz into my hand and stuck my hand under the desk before he got in the door. He walked in and my friend started to laugh obviously he knew the cop, at the same time the cop looked around the room and said "hell someone fire it up I know somebody in here has one" I looked at him for a min. and pulled my hand out and started back rolling. got the 1st one rolled and handed it to the cop with a lighter, he fired it up and we smoked 1 more before his radio went off and he stood up and said "well got to go, thanks man". he walked out I never seen him again..lol..

ok one more..

I know this cop (daughters x-husbands dad) now he does not smoke but his wife does for migraines, one of the "well I'm going to confiscate this and let you go" kind of cops..lol..

 

[SpasticGramps]

If you think someone may be a cop make them smoke a whole bowl out of bong. You can hide hitting a joint. You can't hide ripping on a bong.

Having said that, if you even think you are around some Narcs then you are doing something wrong.

 

[SpasticGramps]

Also make them give you some weed or something and then tell them you'll pay them back tomorrow. Cops can't let the drugs leave their site without completing the transaction. That's a big no no for them.

B.Friendly put it right though, they don't play by any rules. If they want you, they'll probably get you.