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Justice catches up with bent c
SELF-confessed corrupt detective Christopher Laycock should face a raft of criminal charges, the Police Integrity Commission recommended yesterday.
But while the former officer may be charged with stealing, extortion and perverting the course of justice, he is unlikely to be charged over his most serious crime - even though he has admitted to it.
The most serious offence involves Laycock and career criminal David John Hopes accepting $10,000 from a suspect in the murder of Andrew Heavens, in Rozelle, in 2003.
Because Laycock admitted the offence before the Comm... Read more
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Brandon J. McFadden, 33, a former agent with the Tulsa office of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, was booked into the jail Thursday on a hold for U.S. marshals, jail records show.
McFadden pleaded not guilty during a hearing at 2 p.m. today in federal court to four counts that are contained in a newly unsealed indictment.
He is charged with taking part in a drug conspiracy, possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute; possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime, and aiding and abetting money laundering.
He faces forfeiture allegations related to his alleged drug crimes.
U.S. Magistrate Paul Cleary presided over the McFadden appearance in federal court. McFadden faces a detention hearing Tuesday afternoon and will remain in custody until then.
According to the indictment, from July 2002 through approximately September 2009, McFadden regularly investigated potential firearms and drug trafficking offenses with the ATF.
The indictment alleges that beginning in January 2007, and continuing through October 2008, McFadden conspired with other individuals to distribute marijuana, powder cocaine, and methamphetamine in the Northern District of Oklahoma.
As part of that conspiracy, McFadden is alleged to have planted drug evidence on suspects; stolen drugs and money from suspects; and testified falsely in court. The money laundering count charges McFadden with using proceeds of the drug trafficking to purchase a Chevrolet Silverado on June 8, 2007.
The indictment comes from the grand jury overseen by U.S. attorney Jane W. Duke, of the Eastern District of Arkansas. The indictment shows numerous incidences in which McFadden and an unnamed Tulsa police officer allegedly took money and drugs from individuals in return for silence with the agreement that the individual would not be arrested.
In one incident, on Jan., 28, 2007, McFadden and a Tulsa police officer allegedly collected $60,000 in drug money but only turned in about $10,200, the indictment states.
In this incident, McFadden and the Tulsa police officer allegedly planted marijuana at an individual's home and pretended to discover the marijuana while serving a search warrant at the residence.
The drugs allegedly planted by McFadden and the police officer caused the resident to retrieve two pounds of methamphetamine and $60,000 in cash, the indictment states.
The Tulsa police officer who assisted in the incident only reported $10,200 from the search, records show.
An FBI agent arrested McFadden about 7 p.m. Thursday, according to jail records.
Land records show McFadden apparently had lived in Owasso but his arrest report shows a Lubbock, Texas, address.
McFadden was employed as a Lubbock Police officer in Texas before working for the ATF, said Capt. Greg Stevens, spokesman for Lubbock police.
He was hired by Lubbock police Aug. 2, 1999, and left the police force July 5, 2002, Stevens said.
McFadden went to work as an ATF agent July, 15, 2002, an ATF official said. He investigated drug and weapons crimes in Tulsa and worked with the Special Investigations Division of Tulsa Police Department, court records show.
McFadden resigned from the ATF on Sept. 25, 2009, the ATF said.
McFadden, along with Jeff Henderson, an undercover Tulsa police officer, has been implicated in a federal investigation in which prosecutors allege the pair fabricated a drug buy that sent a Tulsa man and his daughter to federal prison in 2008, records show.
Prosecutors allege that McFadden and Henderson, 37, coached a drug informant for the alleged drug buy that occurred May 8, 2007 in Tulsa, according to a federal motion unsealed and filed last week in Tulsa County District Court.
The detail of the alleged fabricated drug buy is consistent with a public corruption investigation concerning certain Tulsa law enforcement officers, the federal pleading states.
The alleged drug buy led to the convictions of Larita Annette Barnes, 33, and Larry Wayne Barnes Sr., 59, on federal drug charges, records show.
The Barneses were released from federal prison July 2 because the informant in the case, Ryan Logsdon, said he lied about the drug buy, the court filing unsealed last week states, a World investigation shows.
Larry Barnes had served about one year on two 5 1/2-year sentences, which were to run concurrently. Larita Barnes had served about one year on two concurrent 10-year sentences.
Henderson was placed on paid leave by the Tulsa Police Department last week.
Henderson, who has not been charged with a crime, has denied the allegations. Henderson maintains that the Barnes’ drug buy occurred and that it was proper and legal.
Meanwhile, Tulsa County District Attorney Tim Harris has ordered a review of cases in which Henderson has been involved. There could be more than 100, records indicate.
Harris’ office has been contacted by Duke.
Henderson has worked for the Tulsa Police Department for 14 years. He was assigned to the Special Investigations Division in about 2005.
In 2002, Henderson was suspended for two days without pay for violating police procedures while performing a bar check at a local bar in Tulsa, records show.
Additionally, the World has filed an Open Records Request to obtain the names of several Tulsa police officers subpoenaed by a federal grand jury looking into police corruption.
Deputy Chief Mark McCrory said that the police department received the subpoenas recently and delivered them to the officers.
So far, the grand jury appears to have questioned about 20 federal inmates, the World investigation shows. In October and November, the grand jury summoned 14 current or former federal inmates for testimony, sources said. Inmates previously interviewed by the World say prosecutors are asking questions about fabricated informants, stolen drug money
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