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Law Enforcement Forfeiture Corruption Scandal in Michigan Includes Police Chief
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2013, page 30
The former chief of police in Romulus, Michigan, his wife and five detectives have been charged with dozens of criminal offenses related to their alleged misuse of funds seized under forfeiture laws. Romulus is located just outside Detroit, in Wayne County.Ex-police chief Michael C. St. Andre, 50; his wife …
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