Police Sergeant Arrested

SPD Sergeant Arrested
The Daily Leader by Leigh Kreimeier - March 5, 2009

Stuttgart, Arkansas - Randy Crawford, an officer with the Stuttgart Police Department since 2002, was arrested Wednesday afternoon for bribery of a public servant/corruption and is currently being held in Arkansas County Detention Center in DeWitt with no bond. “He admitted to taking money from local drug dealers in exchange for what the police department was doing,” SPD Chief Mike Smith said. The arrest is the result of an Arkansas State Police Investigation, Smith said. Crawford was originally the Stuttgart Animal Control Officer before being moved to patrol in 2002 and was currently in the role of K-9 officer. The bribery/corruption charge is a Class D felony, which carries a fine of 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. “This type of behavior will not be tolerated by the Stuttgart Police Department, because nobody is above the law,” Smith said. “We have good officers here and I don’t want the public to look down on them because of one bad apple.”