A Wake County grand jury on Wednesday handed down an indictment, advancing the criminal case against a former Raleigh police officer linked to drug arrests that later had to be dismissed.

Wake grand jury indicts former Raleigh police officer linked to bogus drug arrests

>Raleigh, North Carolina

>police corruption

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>Detective Omar Abdullah was fired in November 2021 after being on paid leave for more than a year.

"This indictment comes at the end of a lengthy investigation into this matter. From the beginning, we have taken the harm caused with great seriousness," said Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman.

Authorities allege that, between December 2019 and May 2020, Abdullah used an informant named Dennis Leon Williams Jr. on controlled drug buys that led to 15 Black men being arrested and jailed on drug trafficking charges.

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