Post by WaTcHeR on Mar 28, 2006 9:38:35 GMT -5
03/28/2006 - A former Baton Rouge police officer accused of drug-trafficking will remain in jail until trial.
Officer Daryl W. Davis, 38, 18030 Manning Drive, Prairieville, pleaded innocent Monday afternoon in Baton Rouge federal court and his court-appointed attorney, John McLindon, did not request bond.
Officer Davis is being held in West Baton Rouge Parish Prison.
A federal grand jury indicted Davis last week on one count of possession with intent to distribute 11 pounds or more of cocaine.
He faces a minimum of 10 years in prison up to life if convicted as charged.
U.S. Magistrate Christine Noland said Monday that Davis likely would not have been eligible for bond anyway “because there’s such a high quantity of drugs involved.”
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents investigated Davis for more than a year before arresting him last week.
An affidavit claims investigators seized cocaine from a garbage can in his garage, as well as a loaded .38-caliber revolver, ammunition, an electric money counter and money-packaging materials from elsewhere on the property.
Davis spent 13 years on the Baton Rouge police force. He was sentenced to five years in prison in February 2001 after being convicted on one count of obstruction of justice and one count of public bribery.
Davis was arrested in 1999 and accused of stealing a cell-phone cloning device from the Police Department evidence room and selling it for $1,000 to the man from whom officers seized it.
Davis was fired when he refused to answer questions posed by Internal Affairs investigators.
Officer Daryl W. Davis, 38, 18030 Manning Drive, Prairieville, pleaded innocent Monday afternoon in Baton Rouge federal court and his court-appointed attorney, John McLindon, did not request bond.
Officer Davis is being held in West Baton Rouge Parish Prison.
A federal grand jury indicted Davis last week on one count of possession with intent to distribute 11 pounds or more of cocaine.
He faces a minimum of 10 years in prison up to life if convicted as charged.
U.S. Magistrate Christine Noland said Monday that Davis likely would not have been eligible for bond anyway “because there’s such a high quantity of drugs involved.”
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents investigated Davis for more than a year before arresting him last week.
An affidavit claims investigators seized cocaine from a garbage can in his garage, as well as a loaded .38-caliber revolver, ammunition, an electric money counter and money-packaging materials from elsewhere on the property.
Davis spent 13 years on the Baton Rouge police force. He was sentenced to five years in prison in February 2001 after being convicted on one count of obstruction of justice and one count of public bribery.
Davis was arrested in 1999 and accused of stealing a cell-phone cloning device from the Police Department evidence room and selling it for $1,000 to the man from whom officers seized it.
Davis was fired when he refused to answer questions posed by Internal Affairs investigators.