Former Uplands Park Auxiliary Police Officer Sentenced
| U.S. Attorney’s Office June 20, 2011 |
ST. LOUIS—The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that Justin Scott Biancardi, a former auxiliary police officer of the Uplands Park Police Department, was sentenced to six months of home confinement, three years’ probation, 100 hours of community service and ordered to pay restitution for his role in a conspiracy to exploit suspected prostitutes. Biancardi provided major assistance in the investigation, which uncovered the conspiracy.
During the plea proceedings in January of this year, Biancardi admitted that during 2009, he and former Uplands Park Police Department Officer Leon Pullen, Biancardi’s field training officer, decided to “set up” prostitutes so that they could steal money and property from them.
JUSTIN SCOTT BIANCARDI, of Florissant, MO, pled guilty in January and appeared today for sentencing before United States District Judge Henry Autrey. Biancardi’s training officer, Leon Pullen, previously pled guilty and was sentenced to 25 years in prison on January 28, 2011.
This case was investigated by the St. Louis Division of the Federal Bureau Investigation and was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Howard Marcus of the Eastern District of Missouri and Trial Attorney Eric Gibson, formerly of the U.S. Department of Justice-Civil Rights Division.