Cleveland DEA Agent Acquitted on All 18 Counts Including Perjury and Obstruction of Justice

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com
Cleveland DEA Agent Lee Lucas, accused of perjury, obstruction of justice and violating civil rights in a case that involved framing people in a sting, was acquitted by a federal jury Friday, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported.
The paper reported that DEA agent Lee Lucas broke into tears Friday after the jury cleared him of all 18 counts stemming from a 2005 investigation.
“The truth finally came out after all those years,” said Lucas, 41, as he walked from the courtroom, the Plain Dealer reported.
The charges against Lucas stemmed from a 2005 drug investigation that resulted in about two dozen indictments, the paper reported.
Nearly all the charges were dropped after a key informant admitted framing people “by staging phone calls and purposely identifying the wrong people as drug sellers,” the paper reported.
“Prosecutors accused Lucas of lying in written reports and in court to corroborate” the informant’s testimony, the paper reported.
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Posted: 2/5/10 at 11:32 PM under News Story.
Tags: acquitted, DEA, Lee Lucas
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Comment from Leecal
Time February 8, 2010 at 5:47 pm
He was using hollow point ……