Jocelin Latrice Betts, city carrier assistant and Lenard Dewayne Pompey, customer service supervisor with 17 years
Alabama postal supervisor, letter carrier accused of helping criminals traffic 500 pounds of weed
8/3/15 A narcotics investigation spanning nearly a year resulted in its first arrests this week when drug agents in Tuscaloosa charged two post office workers and two alleged drug dealers accused of participating in the distribution of more than 500 pounds of marijuana.
Sgt. Brent Blankley, a spokesman for the West Alabama Narcotics Task Force, said the investigation began in late 2014, after agents discovered a large amount of marijuana being shipped into Tuscaloosa and suspected postal workers were in on the scheme.
WANTF partnered with the FBI’s Tuscaloosa Office, U.S. Postal Inspectors and the U.S. Postal Service’s Office of the Inspector General and began to work the case.
Blankley said the investigators determined that employees at three different post offices in Tuscaloosa had been recruited by a known drug trafficker, Quincy Terrell Doss.
They were paid, Blankley said, to facilitate the delivery of large quantities of illegal drugs shipped through the U.S. Postal service to Doss’s trafficking organization, and to alert local dealers if a package was being watched by law enforcement officers who suspected drugs were inside.
This made the investigation very difficult, Blankley said, but agents were ultimately able to determine which employees were part of the scheme, leading to the four arrests this week.
“The investigation is still ongoing and additional arrests and charges will be made in the upcoming days,” Blankley said. “The U.S. Postal Service workers that were arrested knew the packages contained drugs and were part of the criminal operation.”
27-year-old Jocelin Latrice Betts, a postal worker, was arrested last Friday. Betts is charged with trafficking marijuana and conspiracy to distribute marijuana. She was placed in the Tuscaloosa County Jail, where her bond was set at $1,530,000.
Lenard Dewayne Pompey, a 38-year-old postal worker, was arrested Monday and charged with two counts of conspiracy to distribute marijuana. His bond was set at $60,000.
via Agents arrest Tuscaloosa postal workers accused of helping criminals traffic 500 pounds of weed
Is that her chest hair or tramp stamp?
rico..u lose bet ..carl is right..eeo is coming..typical this is how p.o runs.
What a waste going after weed,
nothing better to do than chase pot smokers
They’ll hire anybody. Management should’ve figured this out once they dropped the pay for all new hires and erased benefits.
$100 says that CCA files EEO, “cuz I’m black”
now you know why we call them “STUPIDVISORS” and I hedge against this maddness by investing in UPS/FDX stock. this place has been circling the drain since they went into full diversity mode with the slogan……….no white males with college degrees need apply! (just like in NYC in the 1920’s-Irish need Not Apply) its just a house of cards….not if, just when!
Carl I’ll take that bet.