Crummy

Crummy

Boyle said his client was stopped earlier this year for failing to maintain a lane and then arrested by Deputy Jacob Palmer for possession of cocaine and marijuana. “What they did is find a confidential informant who they then gave drugs to, marijuana and cocaine, and they sent that person to go meet with Mrs. Jones and to give her the drugs,” Boyle said.

(Informant): "I want you to smoke this s** over here because this is some good s**. (Renee Jones): "I can't smoke it no more." Boyle said the drugs were later planted in his client's car by the informant who was heard speaking with a deputy during the bust. (Informant): "Hey there's dope and there's weed. It's in the cigarette pack in the middle."

According to CBS46 , a sheriff's department around Atlanta is being investigated for some pretty heinous practices in their narcotics unit. When Renee Jones was pulled over and arrested for possession of cocaine and marijuana, things seemed like normal. Older lady with a history of substance abuse problems falls off the wagon and then gets busted. It's a sad story, repeated far too often. Except strangely, and without fanfare, Renee Jones's charges were all dropped and she was free to go. What happened? Well, a month ago, the Walton County sheriff's department suspended its narcotics unit while they performed an investigation into its practices. Ms. Jones' attorney David Boyle has some more information he thinks the public should be aware of:Mr. Boyd has audio evidence of this informant.Forget the clear insanity of planting evidence on someone in order to bust them. Forget the fact that the evidence is planted after trying to entrap them fails. This woman is clearly trying not to do drugs. She's the person, in recovery, that our war on drugs is supposed to protect!

Amongst other pieces of evidence is that the confidential informant blew up the narcotics officers' spots when he started trying to extort money from the sheriff's department. If you want to be a gangster police officer, you have to pay people like a gangster.

In the Walton County sheriff department's defense, they are just following the example of our homeland security practices when it comes to manufacturing crime in order to keep getting money for your department.

You can watch the news story, with the audio over here: CBS46 News