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DEA agent Lee Lucas going to trial on charges he lied in testimony
By John Caniglia, The Plain Dealer
December 27, 2009, 6:03PM
The trial will focus on Lucas' work in Mansfield, where he oversaw an informant who has admitted to fabricating drug deals that caused 17 people to be wrongfully charged and many of them to be shipped off to prison for crimes they didn't commit. Charges have been tossed out in nearly two dozen cases. Lucas is accused of perjury, making false statements in official reports, obstruction of justice and violating people's civil rights for his role in the investigation. Full story »
Victim of informant or liar? Attorneys set for Lee Lucas trial
By John Caniglia, The Plain Dealer
November 12, 2009, 9:33PM
Prosecutors and Lucas' attorneys both laid out their cases in documents recently filed in U.S. District Court. Lucas was indicted in May with 18 perjury-related charges involving a cocaine conspiracy he investigated in Mansfield. He is scheduled to go to trial in January. Full story »
DEA agent Lee Lucas' investigations were sloppy, federal prosecutor testifies
By Melodie Smith
July 15, 2009, 12:00AM
But the prosecutor refused to say that he ever doubted Lucas' truthfulness or his credibility. He said Lucas worked too many cases, used outdated recording equipment that often broke down and failed to document his work properly. Full story »
Deputy Charles Metcalf, who worked with DEA agent Lee Lucas, pleads guilty to lying at drug trial
By Melodie Smith
May 14, 2009, 7:39PM
A 14-year police veteran who worked alongside drug agent Lee Lucas in a controversial drug probe admitted Thursday that he lied to convict a Mansfield businessman in 2005. Richland County Sheriff's Deputy Charles Metcalf pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of violating the civil rights of Dwayne Nabors, the owner of a car detail shop. The... Full story »
DEA Agent Lee Lucas indicted on perjury, civil rights charges; pleads not guilty
By Karl Turner, The Plain Dealer
May 13, 2009, 9:57AM
Lee Lucas, a 19-year veteran, was charged in U.S. District Court in Cleveland with perjury, making false statements, and violating a person's civil rights involving a case that resulted in 26 arrests in Mansfield. Full story »
Documents on Lee Lucas, drug agent in Mansfield case, sealed by judge
By Peter Zicari, The Plain Dealer
January 05, 2009, 7:05AM
Federal prosecutors have given a judge more than 2,000 documents, some of which they're calling highly sensitive, that touch on the credibility of an embattled drug agent. But U.S. District Judge James Gwin has sealed the records and several motions relating to them, keeping what prosecutors knew of Lee Lucas' work hidden from the public, at least for now.... Full story »
Judge in Lee Lucas case demands prosecutors' notes on drug agent's credibility
By John Kroll, The Plain Dealer
August 12, 2008, 2:56AM
A judge has ordered federal prosecutors to give him all their internal memos and other documents that discuss the credibility of drug agent Lee Lucas, whose investigation in Mansfield led to the wrongful convictions of nearly two dozen people. U.S. District Judge James Gwin also demanded that prosecutors hand over an e-mail that Assistant U.S. Attorney Ronald Bakeman wrote to... Full story »
Mansfield drug case gone wrong: The inside story
By John Kroll, The Plain Dealer
June 22, 2008, 5:33AM
In the shadows of boarded-up homes on a hazy October afternoon in 2005, two men pull into a gas station parking lot in a souped-up Buick Roadmaster with tinted windows. They are there to buy $2,600 of crack cocaine. Jerrell Bray is driving. The stocky man with unkempt hair is a killer. He spent 13 years in prison for... Full story »
Drug prosecution went ahead despite questionable ID
By John Kroll, The Plain Dealer
March 12, 2008, 2:27AM
Three days before a 2006 trial was to begin for the purported leader of a huge Mansfield drug ring, one of the lesser targets made a startling statement to prosecutors. The man confessed his guilt, but he said the chief target of the investigation was never involved in the drug case. Prosecutors had the wrong guy. Prosecutors went ahead with... Full story »
DEA case went ahead despite detective's warning
By John Kroll, The Plain Dealer
February 13, 2008, 8:00PM
Hours after undercover Drug Enforcement Administration agent Lee Lucas bought cocaine in Mansfield from a man he identified as Roosevelt Williams, a veteran police detective warned Lucas that he had the wrong man. Officer Perry Wheeler was familiar with Williams - was actually investigating Williams himself - and was watching as Lucas bought the drugs. Wheeler knew that the... Full story »
Ex-cons face hard times, even though their convictions were based on lies
By John Kroll, The Plain Dealer
February 03, 2008, 2:09AM
They returned to the city where they were betrayed, feeling bitter and filled with hatred for the man who put them in prison. Last week, a group of men left prisons across the country and headed back to Mansfield. They were convicted in a massive drug conspiracy case that collapsed Jan. 25, when a federal judge ordered 15 men released... Full story »
Drug informant's lies lead to questions about the criminal justice system
By John Kroll, The Plain Dealer
January 27, 2008, 2:28AM
A MAN WAS ON A FLIGHT to Chicago at the time police said he sold them drugs. Another suspected dealer, a mountain of a man with a gap-toothed smile, was mistaken in a cocaine buy for someone nearly a foot shorter and 70 pounds lighter. In another case, a DEA agent picked out a woman he said sold him... Full story »
Feds to release 15 more people in botched Mansfield drug case
By Karl Turner, The Plain Dealer
January 22, 2008, 2:38PM
A federal judge plans to dismiss the convictions of 15 men who were sent to prison in a botched drug case involving an informant who has admitted to perjury. U.S. District Judge John Adams told attorneys Tuesday afternoon that he hopes to have the men out of prison by Feb. 1. Federal prosecutors are expected to formally ask Adams... Full story »
'They stole the truth,' says woman convicted for crime she didn't commit
By John Kroll, The Plain Dealer
January 21, 2008, 8:09PM
Geneva France walked out of federal prison with $68 and a bus ticket home. That's all the government had to offer a woman who had served 16 months of a decade-long prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. The mother of three returned to her family, but her youngest child -- who was 18 months old when France... Full story »
Mansfield man sues DEA for fabricated drug charges
By John C. Kuehner, The Plain Dealer
October 24, 2007, 5:47PM
A Mansfield man sued the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and other police officers Wednesday in federal court in Cleveland for forcing him to spend 20 months in jail on drug charges that were later found to be fabricated. Joshawa Webb, 28, criticized DEA agent Lee Lucas and others for his wrongful arrest in 2005. The informant in the investigation, Jerrell... Full story »
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