I'm at my sons baseball game and my ex-wife pints to a guy and says "That's Billy Scott". She said Billy worked with her husband until he got arrested.

Memphis, TN - Terrell L. Harris, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, Larry Godwin, Director of Police Services for the City of Memphis, My Harrison, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Memphis Division, Andrew Dimond, Resident Agent in Charge of the DEA’s Memphis Resident Office, and Cleve Daniels, Special Agent in Charge of Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, announced today that former Memphis Police Officer David Tate was sentenced to 168 months (14 years) imprisonment, 5 years supervised release and a $900 special assessment. The sentence was imposed by the Honorable Bernice B. Donald, United States District Court Judge for the Western District of Tennessee. The Court imposed the recommended sentence set forth in the plea agreement filed on June 21, 2005.

Defendant Tate pleaded guilty to Counts 1 through 5, 7 through 9 and 11 of the Indictment in Case No. 04-20476-D charging Defendant Tate with violations of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2 (aiding and abetting), 241 (conspiracy to violate civil rights under color of law), 371 (conspiracy to violate federal laws), 1951(a) (bribery), and 2421 (interstate transportation of "any woman or girl" for purposes of prostitution), and 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and 846 (drug distribution).
Tate, former police officers Billy Scott and John D. Vaughan, and civilian April Veach were originally charged in complaints unsealed on November 22, 2004, and they were indicted in Case No. 04-20476-D on November 23, 2004.

As part of his Plea Agreement, Defendant Tate agreed that the Statement of Facts signed by him and filed with his plea agreement was a true description of his criminal conduct.
According to the Statement of Facts, the course of charged criminal conduct started in Spring 2004 when Tate sought to establish a relationship with several Memphis area nightclubs whereby he would provide warnings of vice raids in exchange for bribes. As part of this scheme, Tate established contact with an individual, who unknown to Tate assisted in the investigation.

During a meeting on March 31, 2004, Tate and the cooperating individual agreed on approximately $500.00 a month initially for Tate's services, including notification of vice raids. At the same meeting, Tate accepted a $200.00 payment to run a computer check on the National Crime Information Center (“NCIC”). NCIC is a non-public law enforcement database. According to the affidavit, Tate ultimately received several other payments and engaged in other criminal schemes.

According to the Statement of Facts, Tate recruited another police officer, Billy Scott, to assist the cooperating individual in transporting women across state lines for purposes of prostitution. The women were undercover agents posing as prostitutes. As part of the sting, Tate and Scott were told that the woman were carrying distributable quantities of controlled substances. Before Tate and Scott escorted the women during the first trip on October 1, 2004, the cooperating individual told them that the women were carrying ecstacy, and that the women were meeting high dollar gamblers in Tunica. Before the next trip on November 5, 2004, the cooperating individual told Tate and Scott that there was going to be fifty ecstacy pills and one hundred grams of methamphetamine in the limousine with them when they traveled to the casino in Mississippi.

According to the Statement of Facts, Scott recruited still another officer, John Vaughan, for another trip. On November 13, 2004, Vaughan met with an undercover FBI agent. The agent explained the next drug transaction planned for November 19, 2004, and paid Vaughan $500 as a retainer for his participation in the November 19th operation. On November 15, 2004, Tate and Scott assisted the undercover agent in transporting two kilograms of methamphetamine to Mississippi. Then on November 19, 2004, Tate, Scott and Vaughan provided security for a supposed sale of ten kilograms of methamphetamine to a "buyer" coming from Missouri. The "buyer" was actually another FBI undercover agent.

In addition, according to the Statement of Facts, Tate, Scott and civilian April Veach conspired to commit a burglary at a house in East Memphis, using the officers’ positions with the police department and departmental equipment to accomplish the crime, which would violate the home-owner’s right to be secure in his person, house, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures. During a meeting with the cooperating individual on November 6, 2004, Tate told the cooperating individual about an individual who had $200,000 in cash hidden inside two jukeboxes at his residence. According to Tate, the owner of the residence was out of town every Monday. Tate remarked that he thought this was an easy mark and that he planned to take it off in the near future. He indicated that he could have another marked police unit up the road from the residence as a lookout and would also hear any 911 calls over his scanner.

According to the Statement of Facts, during this period, the investigators were monitoring Tate’s cellular telephone, pursuant to a court order. During a series of telephone calls between Tate and Scott on November 8, 2004, the two officers discussed their surveillance of the target residence. During one of these conversations, Tate told Scott that he had the “layout of the inside of the house.” On the same day, Tate also had a telephone conversation with April Veach in which they discussed plans for the burglary, Tate indicated that he would shoot the occupant if they found the occupant in the house with a pistol, and Tate offered April Veach a larger share of the expected $200,000 because the burglary was her idea.
According to the Statement of Facts, Tate and Scott discussed the burglary plan with the undercover FBI agent on November 15, 2004. Tate indicated he wanted the FBI undercover agent to assist them in the burglary. After describing the physical particulars of the residence to be burglarized and the method to be used to gain entry to the residence, Tate indicated that he had a Pizza Hut delivery uniform that he could wear and go to the front door and check and see if any one was home without raising any suspicions.

The defendants were arrested on November 21, 2004.

Co-defendants Scott, Vaughan and Veach have also pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing.

In addition to the agencies listed above, assistance was provided by, among other agencies, the U.S. Marshals Service and the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Joe Murphy and Tom Colthurst, with the Memphis office of the United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee.

In Memphis, the last of three Memphis police officers convicted on corruption charges for accepting bribes to provide security for a drug deal was sentenced March 28. Now former Memphis police Officer John Vaughan was sentenced to 4 ½ years, but was allowed to defer beginning his sentence until January 2007 because his wife is pregnant and the judge wanted him to have an opportunity to bond with the child before he went to prison. The other former officers in the case, Billy Scott and David Tate, were sentenced to seven and 14 years respectively.

If you read all of that I'm wondering one thing... Why do these fellas get to wait to report to jail? My ex said this particular guy has to report to jail in June.

BTW - For those of you wrestling types the guy with 200k in the jukeboxes is Jerry Lawler.

Stay Classy San Diego?

when in rome...

That was WAY too long to actually read... but I'm sure it's not right... if I had to guess.

Actually, sadly enough, it is right. These felons are free for months, in some cases, before they go to prison. Stuff like this definitely gets me upset, but that's the system.

There's only one Billy Scott and HE DON'T WAIT FOR NO JAIL CELL TO BECOME VACANT!!! Billy Scoot gonna file a complaint with the concierge of dis heah establishment.

Trying to read the op is a baaaaad choice

i wanna be on you.

I'm very important, I have many leatherbound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany

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Who knew... I was just guessing....

OP! It IS right.








opinions are not necessarily brvhearts, in fact, he didn't even read this article, so blame Pertoria is you think it's actually not right.... whatever it is we're talking about.