From [HERE] and [HERE] A Baltimore police officer has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for trafficking in heroin, a crime prosecutors say he committed while on duty and in uniform.Forty-one-year-old Daniel Redd of Baltimore was sentenced in U.S. District Court on Wednesday.According to his plea agreement, last year Redd met with a co-conspirator to obtain 40 grams of heroin while on duty. Redd also met on the parking lot of the Northwest District Police Station and provided 200 grams of heroin to a co-conspirator while on duty, dressed in full uniform and carrying his service firearm.

Prosecutors alleged that Redd and a Ghanaian man named Tamim Mamah, also known as Abdul Zakaria, headed a drug organization that imported drugs from West Africa.

"Using a police officer's badge and gun to commit crime is a particularly egregious threat to the community." Timothy P. Groh, acting FBI special agent in charge of the Baltimore field office, said in a statement. "It should serve as a warning that local, state, and federal agencies are working together to root out those that would hide behind a position of authority to break the law, and bring them to justice."