Two (COOKEVILLE) cops, 6 others charged in FBI corruption

[Elidor]

The Cookeville Horrid-Citizen finally got the scoop about 24 hours after the national media jumped on it. But all they have is one paragraph:

http://tinyurl.com/axj94

Even the wretched Tennessean does a better job:

COOKEVILLE, Tenn. — Shortly after 10 a.m. yesterday, FBI agents arrived at the Cookeville Police Department to arrest two men.
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By noon, "Operation Tarnished Shield," a three-year effort by federal and state authorities to "root out corruption" in this Upper Cumberland Plateau city, also had resulted in the arrest of two former law enforcement officers.
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Arrested yesterday at the Cookeville Police Department were Master Patrol Officer Reno Martin, a 15-year veteran of the department, and Patrol Officer Jason Blythe, who has been on the force three years.
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U.S. Attorney Jim Vines, who announced the arrests at an afternoon news conference yesterday at the FBI's office in Cookeville, said the long-running investigation was an attempt to put a halt to a "wide-ranging conspiracy" that threatened to erode the public's trust in the local police.

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050817/NEWS03/508170439

Reno Martin is of course known locally as a great big asshole.

[peggysuet2005]

1. Thats sad

I heard about that. Its sad the FBI has to spend all this time pursuing politicians and cops who are breaking the law instead of terrorists.