Navy, DPS, GPD net 12 in drug sweep (NCIS in civilian drug sweep)

[rainbow4321]

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/redir.php?jid=a2a9d2f56c7f32b6&cat=187cf2a69985adcf


The USS Winston Churchill docked in Galveston on Friday afternoon, just in time for the big Mardi Gras weekend. Twelve people likely not at the arrival ceremony were those charged in felony drug cases after an undercover operation that included Galveston police, Department of Public Safety narcotics agents and agents with the U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service.

Undercover officers went out Tuesday and Wednesday nights, posing as people looking to buy cocaine, said police Lt. Walter Braun. Officers then arrested would-be sellers, he said. “NCIS had contacted us and asked if we’d work an operation before the ship docked on Friday,” Braun said.

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is the law-enforcement branch of the Navy. It is responsible for “all major criminal offenses (felonies) — that is, those crimes punishable under the Code of Military Justice by confinement of more than one year — within the Department of the Navy,” according to the agency’s Web site.

“Under the U.S. Constitution, the military is not to get involved in civilian law enforcement,” Griffin said. “The danger of having the militia getting involved in those types of things is that it can lead to a standing army on our shores, having control of our justice system.” The Naval Criminal Investigative Service provided some of the money used to make drug purchases, although Braun said all purchases were made by undercover Galveston officers.

[gulfcoastliberal]

1. I don't get it - are the dealers seamen?

Seriously, otherwise those arrested should take it to the supreme court and make them announce once and for all that posse comitatus is dead.

[rainbow4321]

2. Or they were trying to keep their guys away from the dealers

But, hell, if they wanted to get the drugs bad enough they would FIND SOMEONE selling the stuff!


From the same article:

“There was no crime that they knew about,” Griffin said. “It looks like they went under the notion that ‘We want to get these guys off the street so our guys stay off dope.’ Well, I’m sorry — I want to get off drug dealers off the street, too, so kids don’t get exposed to that stuff, but I don’t have that power to bust people or launch a big investigation. But the federal government does have power.”