Regarding Canton PD .....Several years ago my younger sister who was a recovering drug user at the time had an investigator on the Drug Task force of the Canton PD trying to get to her become an informant. He was constantly calling her and pressuring her to work for him and she just kept saying no. Finally he threatened her with jail time. She had no outstanding warrant (lucky for her!) at the time. However, she had been charged with possession before and had plead First Offenders on her drug charge. So, basically she was well known to the Canton and Cherokee PD as a drug user and trafficker at the time. One day she came home to her apartment to find her door was open and it looked like it had been kicked in due to the damage to the frame. She thought she had been robbed but nothing of value was missing. She reluctantly reported it to police and they said they would have someone come out to take a report. Instead, this Drug investigator calls her back and says "You either work for me or I charge you with possession" She was like "You don't have anything on me!" He says "I came out to your apartment to do a welfare check and found drugs so you are going to jail!!"
He had no reason to do a welfare check on her and did not have a warrant to enter her home while she was gone. Stacey Barnett who is a really good attorney represented her and went to her probation officer who at the time was the Chief PO at that time and he told my sisters attorney that drug investigator had been trying to get him, the PO, to approve his search warrant and help him get her arrested and PO kept saying "When you bring me some evidence that she is violating her probation, I will but until then NO!" So basically her PO agreed to testify AGAINST the state!! Everything ended up getting dropped but corruption nonetheless!!!!
Lance's wife and mother-in-law have been family friend's for a very long time, in fact I used to babysit their oldest son when he was little. We used to go to their home every December as the family would host a wonderful Christmas party with Santa bringing gifts for the little ones and everything. Well, we ended up not going that year because Jeff had just gotten promoted to Chief and with my sister's case it was just kind of awkward. I am friends with his wife and mother-in-law through working in the same industry and they are a wonderful family but he is a very quiet and reserved man so I don't know much about him or what kind of cop he is....
My prayers are with his family as well as I am certain this whole thing and possible missteps are causing them alot of stress and worry!