"The full list of affected agencies and arrested officers cuts across numerous local agencies, municipal police departments and sheriff's departments in the Delta. The first series of indictments concerned an alleged conspiracy whereby law enforcement officers and their accomplices are alleged to have agreed to provide safe passage for illegal narcotics and drug proceeds to the Mississippi Delta region and ultimately on the last of those runs into Memphis itself, Acting U.S. Attorney Clay Joyner said during a Thursday afternoon press conference in Oxford, Mississippi."
"They did this in return for bribe payments for money. They are also indicted for related firearms offenses and individual counts related to specific runs throughout the Mississippi Delta. The FBI alleges in a sophisticated scheme by local cops to create a cocaine super-highway through their jurisdictions. The FBI's press event describes a network of police protection for drug trafficking, in which many of the officers would escort what they believed to be narcotics across the state and into Memphis."
Federal agents conducted early-morning raids in Mississippi, arresting multiple local law enforcement officers, including Sheriff Bruce Williams of Humphreys County, Sheriff Milton M. Gaston of Washington County, and Marvin Flowers, chief deputy of Sunflower County. Arrests spanned numerous municipal police departments and sheriff's offices across the Delta. Indictments allege a conspiracy in which officers and accomplices agreed to provide safe passage for illegal narcotics and drug proceeds into the Mississippi Delta region and ultimately into Memphis, in exchange for bribe payments. Charges include related firearms offenses and individual counts tied to specific trafficking runs. Authorities describe a sophisticated, systemic network of police protection facilitating drug trafficking across multiple counties.
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