Near where I live we have a police chief who was sentenced to ~five years in prison back in 2005. >> "U.S. District Judge Ewing Werlein told Sam Jimmie Mann, 6

Near where I live we have a police chief who was sentenced to ~five years in prison back in 2005. >> "U.S. District Judge Ewing Werlein told Sam Jimmie Mann, 64, that he imposed a sentence at the lower end of the sentencing guidelines because of Mann's long record of good conduct before his crimes." Which is a laughable farce because: The crimes he was found guilty of occurred continuously over three years. They were investigated a number of times and were infamous for being one of the worst speed-traps in the state going back two decades. >> "That town has been known as a speed trap for 20-plus years and this county doesn't need a speed trap. And the county doesn't need the liability associated with this type of contract," Wright says. Wright was a local sheriff, and a former Texas Ranger who had previously investigated Mann but was unable to make a good criminal case against him. >> "Mann and Davis ran what prosecutors called their "own private toll road," on a section of U.S. 59 in Kendleton, a town of about 500 about 40 miles southwest of Houston, between November 1997 and May 2000." To translate, they were stopping motorists, writing bogus tickets, using fake warrants, threatening arrest, demanding cash, taking any cash they found, and keeping some of it for themselves. They were IRL brigands. http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/archives/sheriff-sticks-to-his-guns-no-contract-with-kendleton/article_80a81b18-32a9-5658-b25d-f057bc59def9.html http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/archives/sheriff-sticks-to-hi... http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Kendleton-s-ex-police-commissioner-sentenced-1521158.php http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Kendleton-s-... > I imagine a smart, experienced, undercover DEA agent would be very difficult to catch breaking the law. I imagine so, especially if you don't look too hard.