Former Baltimore Gun Trace Task Force Cops Claim They Only Robbed People On The Clock

By Tom Knighton

Former officers who were part of the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force are in hot water. It seems a number of them stand accused of a number of crimes, none of which are good for the department or for police officers as a whole. Among the accusations are that they “shook down” suspects and falsifying affidavits to get search warrants.

Two former members of an elite gun unit with the Baltimore Police Department testified Wednesday about the crimes the group committed.

One of the former officers, 34-year-old Momodu Gondo, accepted a plea agreement back in June. Now serving as a government witness, Gondo took the stand Wednesday and talked in detail about how the Gun Trace Task Force operated.

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Gondo, nicknamed “G Money,” and six others were first arrested and indicted back in March. All of them were members of the Gun Trace Task Force, which works to get illegal guns off Baltimore’s streets. The men are accused of shaking down citizens for cash, falsifying court documents, and overtime fraud. An eighth officer was arrested and indicted in August.

The men stole money and drugs from citizens during traffic stops, after detaining them, and after …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms