Post by WaTcHeR on Jan 30, 2007 11:29:50 GMT -5
01.31.2007 - MEMPHIS, TN -- Officer Orlando Hebron was arrested earlier this week when Memphis police busted one of their own in what they call 'Operation Tarnished Blue'.
Orlando Hebron, 39, was arrested on Wednesday and charged with money laundering. He's the fifteenth officer caught in the FBI's ongoing investigation known as 'Operation Tarnished Blue'.
"I've stated in the past, this behavior is unacceptable. It will not be tolerated. As far as I'm concerned, another suspect involved in criminal activity has been removed from the streets of Memphis," says Director Larry Godwin.
According to the indictment, Hebron unknowingly was working with an informant and agreed to launder money for this person. The indictment says Hebron accepted money from the informant for money laundering and that he kept the money for his own use.
Hebron's money laundering scam has been going on since May 2006. According to the indictment, he met with the informant in the parking lot of a high school and accepted $3,000 in cash in exchange for Hebron's promise to launder the money and return $2,400 to the informant in the form of a check, the difference was Hebron's payment.
Hebron took the money, but when the informant asked for the money back, he never returned it. Instead, Hebron told the informant that he had used some of the money "to pay some bills".
In addition to money laundering, Hebron was also involved in a storage locker burglary with the same informant that he later denied. The burglary took place at Budget Mini-Storage in Memphis that Hebron thought belonged to a drug dealer. According to the indictment, Hebron's role was the "look-out" while the informant performed the actual robbery.
Hebron could face up to 10 years in prison for money laundering as well as a $250,000 fine. He could also face five years in prison for lying about the burglary.
www.wreg.com/Global/story.asp?S=5990739
Orlando Hebron, 39, was arrested on Wednesday and charged with money laundering. He's the fifteenth officer caught in the FBI's ongoing investigation known as 'Operation Tarnished Blue'.
"I've stated in the past, this behavior is unacceptable. It will not be tolerated. As far as I'm concerned, another suspect involved in criminal activity has been removed from the streets of Memphis," says Director Larry Godwin.
According to the indictment, Hebron unknowingly was working with an informant and agreed to launder money for this person. The indictment says Hebron accepted money from the informant for money laundering and that he kept the money for his own use.
Hebron's money laundering scam has been going on since May 2006. According to the indictment, he met with the informant in the parking lot of a high school and accepted $3,000 in cash in exchange for Hebron's promise to launder the money and return $2,400 to the informant in the form of a check, the difference was Hebron's payment.
Hebron took the money, but when the informant asked for the money back, he never returned it. Instead, Hebron told the informant that he had used some of the money "to pay some bills".
In addition to money laundering, Hebron was also involved in a storage locker burglary with the same informant that he later denied. The burglary took place at Budget Mini-Storage in Memphis that Hebron thought belonged to a drug dealer. According to the indictment, Hebron's role was the "look-out" while the informant performed the actual robbery.
Hebron could face up to 10 years in prison for money laundering as well as a $250,000 fine. He could also face five years in prison for lying about the burglary.
www.wreg.com/Global/story.asp?S=5990739