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Newsbrief:
Tennessee
Drug
Task
Force
Director
Fired
for
Sampling
Evidence
Stash
9/13/02
Tennessee's 10th Judicial
Drug Task Force, centered in Cleveland, is looking for a new director this
week. Kenneth Don Wilson, who headed the task force since 1999, was
fired by the group's oversight board on September 4 after being arrested
for cocaine possession earlier in the week. Wilson is free on a $2,000
bond after his arrest in McMinn County.
The arrest came after an
unnamed informant told officials in the McMinn County District Attorney's
office that drugs could be missing from the task force's Charleston evidence
storage locker. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation officers went to
Wilson's home to investigate and found cocaine after he gave them permission
to search. McMinn County District Attorney Jerry Estes told the Knoxville
News-Sentinel that he had informed state investigators that he had "learned
that evidence might be missing from the drug task force's evidence lockup."
Task force overseers voted
to replace Wilson with Bradley County Deputy Sheriff Jack Damuth.
Although Damuth had been a Bradley County deputy for only two weeks, he
had "considerable experience and had a 25-year career in the US military's
Special Forces," according to one of the overseers.
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Issue #254, 9/13/02
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