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Cops not guilty over fake cannabis bust

May 26, 2005

From: AAP

 

FOUR Victorian detectives accused of stealing cannabis worth $100,000 in a fake drug bust and giving it to a criminal to sell have been found not guilty.

 

Detective Sergeant Glenn Saunders, 44, Detective Sergeant David John Waters, 44, Detective Senior Constable Peter John Alexander, 37, and Detective Senior Constable Stephen Russell Campbell, 35, were all found not guilty today in the Victorian County Court of charges of theft and conspiracy to traffic cannabis.

During the three-week trial, Crown Prosecutor Colin Hillman, SC, told the court Det-Sgt Saunders was tipped off by a criminal that he was meeting a drug dealer to buy $100,000 worth of cannabis at the car park of St Kilda Marina on May 10, 1999.

 

Mr Hillman said Det-Sgt Saunders and the other three officers went to the meeting and took the drugs.

 

They then gave it to the criminal, who cannot be named, to sell.

 

After the jury gave its verdict, the policemen embraced and Det-Sgt Saunders and Const Campbell shed tears.

 

news.com.au

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