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<h6><span style="color: #030000;"><strong>Slain Baltimore cop was set to testify before federal grand jury</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #030000;"><strong>Sean Suiter a Baltimore police officer died after being shot in the head Nov 15 </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #030000;"><strong>Homicide detective Suiter, 43, was set to testify against corrupt members of Baltimore PD&#8217;s Gun Trace Task Force, in a drug related case</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #030000;"><strong>Authorities said there was evidence of a </strong>struggle</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #030000;"><strong>Some Baltimore cops allegedly, had conspired with officers in Philadelphia to sell cocaine and heroin seized on the streets of Baltimore</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #030000;"><strong>Sgts. Thomas Allers and Wayne Jenkins and Dets. Momodu Gondo, Daniel Hersl, Evodio Hendrix, Jemell Rayam, Marcus Taylor and Maurice Ward have been charged</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #030000;"><strong> </strong></span><span style="color: #030000;"><strong>Federal prosecutors had charged Philadelphia Police Eric Troy Snell on Nov 14 with selling stolen drugs he obtained from a corrupt Baltimore police squad Feds said </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #030000;"><strong>Prosecutors say officer Snell, 33, earned thousands of dollars serving as a conduit between corrupt members of a Baltimore police task force Jemell Lamar Rayam and Sgt Earl Wayne Jenkins who stole the drugs, and his brother who sold them in Philadelphia</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #030000;"><strong>Snell allegedly, also threatened the children of a Baltimore officer who pled guilty in the case</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #030000;"><strong>Hendrix , Ward and </strong>Ra<strong>yam has already pled guilty to the indictment while and Sgt Jenkins is fighting the charges</strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="wp-caption-text featured"><strong><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-285799" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Sean-Suiter-2.jpg" alt="Sean Suiter 2.jpg" width="664" height="441" /></strong>Baltimore police officer, Sean Suiter died after being shot in the head on Nov 14, before he could testify against fellow officers in the drug-related charges in a federal indictment </strong></h6>
<div>A Baltimore homicide detective was killed with his own service weapon as he was preparing to testify against fellow officers indicted in a drug-running scheme.</div>
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<p>Sean Suiter, 43, was fatally shot in the head on Nov. 15 and authorities said there was evidence of a struggle, The <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-baltimore-detective-update-20171122-story.html">Baltimore Sun </a>reported on Wednesday.<br />
Detective Jemell Rayam, a 12-year veteran of the Baltimore Police Department was one of eight city police officers charged with racketeering in March by the U.S. attorney&#8217;s office.<br />
Rayam and two other officers were accused in June 2009 of stealing $11,000 in cash from a man they pulled over in a traffic stop.<br />
The man, Gary Brown filed a complaint with the police. Police launched an internal affairs investigation.<br />
Rayam failed a 2010 polygraph test, and investigators concluded that he had provided false statements. The investigation resulted in a &#8220;finding of Sustained for the allegations of Misconduct General, Misrepresentation of Facts, and False Statements,&#8221; the documents show.<br />
But an internal trial board acquitted him of those findings in 2012, and the state&#8217;s attorney&#8217;s office declined to prosecute him criminally.</p>
<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-285798" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Sean-Suiter-crime-sceme.jpg" alt="Sean Suiter crime sceme.jpg" width="664" height="441" /><strong>Police tape off the scene where officer Suiter was fatally shot on Nov 14 in Baltimore city</strong></h6>
<p>Last month, Rayam became the third Baltimore officer to plead guilty to federal racketeering charges,de facto admitting to robbing suspects and forging reports to cover his tracks.<br />
Rayam also he admitted to helping a Baltimore drug dealer rob a rival. Rayam and his fellow robbers made off with $12,000, a Rolex watch, a gold necklace, a handgun and 800 grams of heroin.</p>
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<div>Suiter was scheduled to testify before a federal grand jury about a case that alleged cops in his city had conspired with officers in Philadelphia to sell cocaine and heroin seized from the streets of Baltimore, <a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/philadelphia/feds-philly-officer-sold-drugs-stolen-by-corrupt-baltimore-police-squad-20171114.html?amphtml=y&;mobi=true">according to Philly.com</a>.<br />
In March Baltimore police arrested of eight members of an elite gun task force on charges of robbing and extorting drug dealers for years.<br />
All but one member of the Baltimore Gun Trace Task Force were indicted on federal racketeering charges.</div>
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At the epicenter of the drug charges, officer Jemell Rayam has pled guilty to the racketeering charges</strong></h6>
<p>They were accused of robbing suspects, filing false paperwork and committing overtime fraud. Seven members were indicted by a federal grand jury in March; an eighth was indicted in August.<br />
Sgts. Thomas Allers and Wayne Jenkins and Dets. Momodu Gondo, Daniel Hersl, Evodio Hendrix, Jemell Rayam, Marcus Taylor and Maurice Ward have been charged. Hendrix and Ward have pleaded guilty. The rest have pleaded not guilty. Gondo and Rayam are scheduled to be re-arraigned later this year.<br />
Trials for the men is scheduled to begin in January.</p>
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<div data-role="lightbox_metadata">Baltimore PD dissolved the task force in March. City prosecutors also dropped more than 75 cases handled by its officers, and are reviewing scores more.<br />
An off shoot was that Federal agents later arrested Philadelphia police officer, Eric Troy Snell, on Nov 14, accusing him of conspiring with officers in Baltimore to sell cocaine and heroin seized from that city’s streets.<br />
Prosecutors said officer Snell, 33, earned thousands of dollars serving as a conduit between corrupt members of a Baltimore police task force who stole the drugs and his brother, who sold them in Philadelphia.<br />
<a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/philadelphia/feds-philly-officer-sold-drugs-stolen-by-corrupt-baltimore-police-squad-20171114.html?amphtml=y&;mobi=true">Philly.com</a> reported that investigators also accused Snell of threatening the children of a Baltimore officer who pled guilty in the case.<br />
Snell, is a three-year veteran of the PPD, assigned to the department’s 35th District in Northwest Philadelphia, began his police career in Baltimore before moving to Pennsylvania in 2014.<br />
He reportedly met fellow officer Jemell Rayam at the police academy in Maryland. Rayam was his primary contact with the Baltimore Gun Trace Task Force &#8211; Tasked with cracking down on the proliferation of illegal guns in that city.</div>
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Sgt. Thomas Allers was also indited on the federal racketeering charges<br />
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<div data-role="lightbox_metadata">However according to the arrest complaint, Rayam and some other members of the team, including commanding sergeants Thomas Allers and Wayne Earl Jenkins, used their positions to rob drug dealers, pilfering hundreds of thousands of dollars uncovered while searching homes and cars of suspected criminals.</div>
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<p>Snell allegedly set up an October 2016 meeting between his brother and Rayam to arrange for the sale of cocaine seized by the task force.<br />
After that drug sale the officers got allegedly deposited $1,000 apiece. Several similar transactions followed over the next two months, the indictment alleges.<br />
Arrested along with six other officers in March, Rayam pled guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy last month.<br />
But in recorded jailhouse phone conversations , Snell allegedly pressured Rayam to keep his name out of the ongoing investigation: “Snell told Rayam to ‘stand tall’ and said he would ‘keep an eye’ on Rayam’s kids, which Rayam perceived as a threat to harm Rayam’s children if Rayam told authorities about Snell’s illegal drug trafficking,” the indictment states.<br />
Snell reportedly, would be suspended for 30 days with intent to dismiss, by Philadelphia police dept.<br />
In Maryland, Commissioner Kevin Davis of the Baltimore Police Department said authorities have no reason to believe Suiter’s killing was connected to his pending testimony, according to The Baltimore Sun.<br />
“The BPD and FBI do not possess any information that this incident … is part of any conspiracy,” Davis said.<br />
Commissioner Davis said authorities are offering a $215,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in Suitor’s killing, the Sun reported.</p>
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Slain Baltimore police officer, Sean Suiter, was shot in the head just before he was to testify against rogue cops in fed case
