The Sheriff of Shawneetown

Recently I said that I don't like writing about pot busts, well I need to make an exception to that and say that if it's good cops gone bad, as in the case of the Sheriff of Shawneetown Illinois then I'll drop whatever I'm doing to assist in making the hypocrite notorious. Ray baby, some day you're going to Google your name and read what I have to say: To serve and protect did not mean to serve yourself and protect your profits. You are the lowest of the low, it wouldn't surprise me for a second if you were using your ill begotten proceeds to support an out-of-control meth habit, eh Ray baby? Well I hope you like your new friends at Joilet State Penitentiary, I'm sure there's lot's of brothers there that can't wait to get re-acquainted with you and this time they won't be the ones wearing hand-cuffs.

Martin's popularity in the county surrounding Shawneetown -- boasting little more than a courthouse, a couple of convenience stores and Rudy's barbecue restaurant -- swept the Democrat to re-election four times since he took office in 1990.

A criminal complaint accuses him of distributing more than two pounds of marijuana between April 27 and May 11. But an affidavit by Glenn Rountree, an investigator with the Drug Enforcement Administration, suggests Martin's dealings were many times that total.

In a blow-by-blow account painting a picture of a good cop gone bad, Rountree wrote that Martin hatched a marijuana-dealing scheme in November with the drug dealer who later got cold feet.

At that time, Martin handed the dealer, unidentified in court papers, two pounds of pot and asked if the man could "get rid of that" for the sheriff, who promised he'd use his power to protect him if he ever got caught selling. If the dealer didn't comply, Rountree wrote, Martin said he could "make up" a crime against him.

Have a read of another report: Judge: monumental amount of evidence brought against sheriff facing drug charges