Law Enforcement- Mississippi: Drug Trafficking Bribery Scheme

2 Mississippi
sheriffs, 12 officers
charged in drug
trafficking bribery
scheme, officials say
JACKSON, Miss. (AP)
— Federal authorities
on Thursday announced
indictments against 20
people, including 14 current
or former Mississippi
Delta law enforcement
officers, that allege
the officers took bribes
to provide safe passage
to people they believed
were drug traffickers.
The yearslong investigation
swept across
multiple counties in the
Mississippi Delta region
of Mississippi and Tennessee.
Two Mississippi
sheriffs, Washington
County Sheriff Milton
Gaston and Humphreys
County Sheriff Bruce
Williams, were among
those arrested.
Some bribes