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Two Drug Task Force Employees Arrested

The 24th District Drug Task Force services Benton, Carroll, Hardin, Decatur, and Henry Counties. Among other things, they are charged with handling valuables seized in drug raids. They even have an auction notice on their website for such items. But as far back as March of 2011, there was a scandal brewing.

At the time, an administrative assistant and ex-wife of the director, was fired. In August, an audit and investigation conducted by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the Comptroller. That bit of work showed that both the director and the woman previously fired were using items seized in drug raids for personal use and profit, including the drugs.

Finally, this month there were two arrests, Leona Longworth and the former director, Seven Lee. Longworth had admitted to taking handguns, utility trailers and a flat-screen television among other things.

It’s always a shame when those holding public trust abuse it. The temptations are real and for some, all the booty seized is just free-floating and there for the taking. What should happen, and what does happen in the vast majority of cases, is that the material goods are either used by the police (like cars for undercover), destroyed (drugs, weapons), or auctioned off to the public.

In some cases, the police have been criticized for over-enforcement to get drug money. This happens especially in counties with major highways running through them. The interstate becomes a good fishing ground for drug smugglers and a change to confiscate bundles of cash for the local budget. The above example of malfeasance will be added to the pile of criticisms against a system where the money and property has become such a cash cow.

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