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Ticket Fixing Alleged in DeKalb
(WSB Radio) A traffic ticket fixing scheme has been uncovered by DeKalb County prosecutors, where former county employees destroyed or dismissed tickets in exchange for a personal payment.
According to District Attorney Gwen Keyes Fleming, Charlene Nettles Johnson, Stphan Roberts and Adrian Andrews, three former deputy clerks with the county's recorders court, are facing anti-racketeering charges for fixing traffic tickets.
Up to seven others have been charged with making false statements, bribery and other charges.
"These clerks or associates would go to the judge and tell them falsely that the officer who issued the ticket request the ticket be dismissed," Fleming told Channel 2 Action News.
The former deputy clerks would destroy or dismiss tickets for a fee of 50 percent of the fine.
"The deputy clerks would solicit people with traffic tickets, have them bring in their tickets and then in exchange for one half of the ticket fee, dismiss the ticket or destroy it," Fleming told Channel 2 Action News.
Several friends of the former clerks have also been charged after they allegedly referred business them for a 25 percent finder's fee. Fleming said clothing store called Glitzy Dazzle, owned by Sonia Williams in Stone Mountain, served as a drop box for those who wanted their tickets erased.
Fleming also said Marlene Findley and Rashanda Counts, employees of Fidel Salon in Dekalb County, would use the salon to recruit business for the court clerks .
Keyes said her office has found fixed tickets dating back eight years.
What others are saying
- Dekalb CountyYep, I used to live in Dekalb County before I bought a house and moved waaay up north of the city. I wouldn't have even considered buying property, especially a house in which I wanted to live, in a majority black, black run county. Nuh uh. No way. Not on your life.
My county, although infested with multicultural vermin, is still RUN by Whites and THAT is a number one priority of mine. When I sell this house and move, it will be to Montana or Wyoming. - This is what happensThis is what one gets for hiring from the ghetto. A jobs works program with a side benefit! DeKalb County has the government it deserves.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Look the other way.$If this has been going on for eight years,
who's in charge of dept. oversight? Man,
I always miss out on all the good deals. - corruptionIn the past, tickets were fixed before they got to court. Remember "free plumbing, etc."? I want some genius cop to solve the Officer Corn murder.
- ticketsimagine that more corrupt Dekalb county officials. Who do you trust the crimmals or the police. Oh, yea there the same people.
- Ticket Fixing in DeKalbIt is time for Al Brawley Sharpton to show up now.
- TicketsIt is sad when the criminals are not the people who are getting the tickets, but the people issuing them.
- DekalbGypsy's,tramps,and thieves.Nothing out of the ordinary for this counties elected officals and county employees.
- Ticket FixingWOW! This should not suprise anyone. Give them all the maximum on stencing & shut down all the businesses involved.
- TicketsNothing new here, no surprise. More corrupt officials in the Goverment workplace. What a wonderfual place the Atlanta Metro area is!
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