Former St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department Officer Sentenced
| U.S. Attorney’s Office October 09, 2009 |
ST. LOUIS, MO—Vincent Carr was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison on conspiracy, wire fraud, making false statements and obstruction of justice charges, Acting United States Attorney Michael W. Reap announced today. In addition to his prison sentence, he was ordered to pay over $28,000 restitution.
According to statements made by Assistant U.S. Attorney Hal Goldsmith in court at the time of his guilty plea, Vincent Carr and his co-defendants, Bobby Lee Garrett and Leo Liston, were police detectives employed by the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department assigned to the Crime Suppression Unit. Officers assigned to the Crime Suppression Unit typically handled investigations involving auto theft, burglary, illegal narcotics sales and firearms offenses, and usually carried out their duties while working in plain clothes and unmarked cars.
Carr and his co-defendants stole money during a June, 2008, drug raid, lied on police reports about the drug raid and took other actions to conceal the theft, including falsely arresting and charging an individual relative to the drug raid. Carr later lied to FBI agents investigating the incident and destroyed notes and photographs from the raid.
VINCENT CARR, St. Louis, pleaded guilty in February to one felony count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, one felony count of wire fraud, two felony counts of making false statements and one felony count of obstruction of justice. He appeared today for sentencing before United States District Judge E. Richard Webber
Co-defendant Leo Liston, St. Louis, pleaded guilty in May to one felony count of misapplication of government funds relative to a June, 2008, drug raid, admitting in court at the time of his guilty plea that he misapplied seized drug proceeds and submitted a false police report to conceal his crime. Liston was sentenced on September 17, 2009.
Bobby Lee Garrett, St. Louis, pleaded guilty August 28, to two felony counts of embezzlement of government property, two felony counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, two felony counts of making false statements and one felony count of misapplication of government funds. He is scheduled for sentencing November 10, 2009.
Reap commended the work performed on the case by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Assistant United States Attorney Hal Goldsmith, who is handling the case for the U.S. Attorney’s Office.