20 Jul Baltimore Police Officer Caught Planting Drugs On Suspected Drug Dealer

When Officer Richard Pinheiro arrested a man for possession and intent to sell illicit drugs back in January, it appeared to be a fairly typical scene.

Pinheiro, along with two other officers, had been patrolling an area in Baltimore, Maryland known for its drug deals, when they witnessed what they believed to be a drug transaction. The arrest followed suit, a man was charged, and that was the end of it.

This was all until recently, when body camera footage of the arrest emerged, telling an entirely different story. The footage shows Officer Pinheiro placing a bag of white capsules inside of a soda can in an alley way as the two other officers look on. Pinheiro then walks back out to the street, turns his body camera on, and announces (loud enough for the camera to hear) that he is going back to search the alley. The officer then walks back into the alley and “finds” the very same bag of illicit drugs he had just placed down.

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