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Cop who faked search warrant documents should be prosecuted

Here's a rather astonishing and unsettling story of a veteran officer's abusive exploitation of a confidential informant at the Edinburg Police Department from the McAllen Monitor ("Police officer faked drug warrants, exposed informant," July 10):Edinburg police uncovered the staggering list of suspected abuses in an internal investigation launched last year when a confidential police informant claimed he was kidnapped and beaten after Sgt. Santos Leal, 42, revealed his identity. No charges have been filed against Leal, who admitted during a lie detector test earlier this year that he falsified warrants and probable cause affidavits to search suspected drug houses, according to the documents, which were obtained this week following an open records ruling from the Texas attorney general...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 13, 2008 (boomark / email).