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A FORMER Colac panel beater has denied being part of a police cover-up to conceal how a man died 30 years ago.
Bill Scott, who at the time was a part-owner of Laneway Panels, said he was not involved in repairing a police car that internal investigators suspect hit Hugh Wilson, 57.
Police have spoken to management and staff connected with Laneway as part of the inquiry.
Acting Inspector Chris Gawne of the police ethical standards division yesterday said new information had revealed a police car may have been secretly repaired at a local smash repairs.
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Sheriff, 12 officers indicted
ROANOKE, Va. - A sheriff and 12 current and former officers in a hard-luck rural county that once billed itself the “Sweatshirt Capital of the World” were charged Thursday in a scheme to sell drugs seized from criminals back to the community.
A former postal worker, a former probation officer and five other people also were indicted by federal prosecutors. The charges included racketeering conspiracy, weapons charges, narcotics distribution, obstruction of justice and perjury.
H. Franklin Cassell — the sheriff of Henry County, a former textile hub situated about 50 miles from Roanoke — was quoted by investigators as saying the only way to acquire wealth is to be “a little crooked and not get caught.”
Cassell owns large tracts of land and a trucking company and has reported more than $20,000 in dividends yearly, the government said.
Prosecutors said that for the past eight years, cocaine, steroids, marijuana and other drugs that had been seized by the sheriff’s department were resold to the public. A sergeant who agreed to cooperate with investigators was paid off by the ring to use his house for distributing drugs, authorities said.
“It is disgraceful corruption,” U.S. Attorney John Brownlee said.
Cassell was charged with impeding the investigation by the FBI and federal drug enforcement agents and with money laundering. He was in custody Thursday and awaited a bail hearing in the afternoon.
One defendant still at large
Fourteen others also were in custody, and police had been in contact with the rest of those indicted except for one defendant who was at large, Brownlee said.
The sheriff’s department has 96 officers. State police and officers from the Henry County city of Martinsville are helping to run the department in the meantime.
Cassell has been sheriff since 1992 in the county of about 58,000 residents along the North Carolina line.
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