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Former IMPD Officer Jason P. Edwards Sentenced to 17 Years

U.S. Attorney’s Office October 07, 2009
  • Southern District of Indiana (317) 226-6333

INDIANAPOLIS—Jason P. Edwards, 37, Indianapolis, was sentenced to 17 years in prison today by U.S. District Judge Larry J. McKinney announced Timothy M. Morrison, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana. Edwards was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 50 kilograms of marijuana, three counts of possession with intent to distribute a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of marijuana; and attempt to possess with intent to distribute a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of marijuana following the June 12, 2009, guilty verdict by a jury sitting in Indianapolis. This case was the result of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Indiana State Police and the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD).

Robert B. Long, Jason P. Edwards, and James Davis were all members of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. On June 11, 2008, an indictment returned by a federal grand jury alleged that between March and June, 2008, the three men used their official positions to divert marijuana and cash proceeds of marijuana trafficking to their own use, at times using fictitious search warrants to gain access to private property and at other times just breaking in.

Long and Edwards were both convicted of drug trafficking at a trial. Robert B. Long was sentenced to 25 years on September 23, 2009. James Davis was sentenced to 10 years in prison on July 9, 2009, after entering a guilty plea to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 50 kilograms of marijuana and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Kabec Higgins, a civilian acquaintance and operator of a local business, Ear Candy Muzik, was sentenced to 15 months in prison on July 9. 2009 for his role in the offense. Davis and Higgins testified for the government in that trial.

According to Assistant U.S. Attorneys Josh Minkler and Joe H. Vaughn, who prosecuted these cases for the government, Judge McKinney also imposed three years supervised release following Edwards’ release from imprisonment.

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