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FBI Law Enforcement Sting Nabs 53 in Ohio
Loaded on July 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1998, page 15
FBI Law Enforcement Sting Nabs 53 In Ohio In February, 1998, a federal grand jury indicted 53 Cleveland area people as a result of an FBI sting operation where federal agents posed as drug kingpins and hired police, county jail guards, a deputy sheriff, and several "law enforcement imposters" to …
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