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A former Columbus police officer accused of stealing cocaine from crime scenes and evidence rooms and then selling it for more than $100,000 has pleaded guilty, the Department of Justice said in a release. Joel M. Mefford, 35, of London, Ohio, pleaded guilty Tuesday to two counts of possessing with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine, one count of possessing with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and one count of money laundering, the DOJ said in a statement.
Something similar happened a month later, the DOJ said, when the officers were looking into houses known for drug-trafficking. On March 7, 2020, the officers arrested an individual at one of the houses, but not before they took a bag that was holding 'multiple kilograms of cocaine,' according to the DOJ. They then went to another house under investigation and stole another kilogram of the drug, officials said.
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