The indictments of three former St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department officers in December 2008 raised a host of legal questions and further litigation. The officers’ indictments caused both the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri and the ...

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Former St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department officer Bobby Lee Garrett was sentenced today to 28 months in prison on charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, making false statements and theft of government funds. Garrett will also be ordered to pay restitution ...

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Former St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department officer Vincent Carr was sentenced to 12 months in prison and ordered to pay $28,000 in restitution on conspiracy, wire fraud, making false statements and obstruction of justice charges. Carr, 47, pleaded guilty in ...

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St. Louis Metropolitan Police Officer Leo Liston was sentenced to three months in prison and ordered to pay $8,000 in restitution on a felony charge of misappropriation of government funds. Liston, 35, pleaded guilty in May to one felony count of ...

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<!–[if !mso]> <! st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } –> St. Louis Metropolitan Police Officer Bobby Garrett pleaded guilty today to conspiracy, wire fraud, making false statements and theft of government funds. Garrett and another officer, Vincent Carr, were indicted in December 2008, accused ...

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An issue that hinged on a media interview now has parties not wanting to talk about it. A federal judge is weighing whether prosecutors acted improperly by publicly questioning convictions in cases investigated by an indicted police officer. St. Louis attorney Chet Pleban, of Pleban & Associates, filed the motion to dismiss for prosecutorial misconduct after a newspaper article quoted former U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway and current St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce as saying that more than 1,000 convictions were put in doubt because of the indictment of Pleban's client, St. Louis Metropolitan Police Officer Bobby Lee Garrett.

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