Atlanta Massage Parlors: Atlanta officer under investigation for cash theft
Posted on September 30th, 2009 in Atlanta massage parlors
As a supervisor in the vice unit since 2002, Butler had access to thousands of dollars in cash kept in a safe for investigators to use during undercover drug buys. Police have not yet said how much money disappeared. The alleged theft was discovered when another employee complained to internal affairs.
Butler’s personnel file shows that he began supervising the vice unit in 2002 at a time when drugs were just beginning to inundate Gwinnett County. Vice unit investigators perform undercover operations into narcotics and prostitution. Under Butler’s watch, the Gwinnett County Drug Task Force broke a department record for the seizure of illegal drugs for three years in a row, from 2005 to 2007.
Butler also spearheaded a highly effective effort to eradicate massage parlors that Police Department records show were serving as fronts for prostitution. He helped county leaders craft a new ordinance prohibiting such establishments, which by 2006 had reduced the number of illegal massage parlors from 36 to zero.
See the full article from “Police News”
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