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A veteran Seattle police officer has been arrested and charged with smuggling over 100 kilos of pot to the East Coast. Federal prosecutors have accused Officer Alex Chapackdee with transporting hundreds of pounds of pot from Washington to Baltimore, and returning with boxes full of cash. The officer has reportedly been under FBI surveillance since last year, after a public corruption case was opened alongside the drug smuggling case.
According to the charging documents, Chapackdee has been accused of assisting a drug trafficking ring run by his brother-in-law, Tuan Van Le. The officer allegedly provided Le with inside “information on arrests and investigations that may be connected” to the smuggling operation. In addition, Le allegedly paid the cop $10,000 a month “to keep an eye on all of Tuan Van Le’s marijuana grow houses.” The prosecutors also charge Chapackdee with “regularly smuggling large amounts of marijuana” from Washington to the East Coast. Le allegedly paid his brother-in-law $15,000 for each of these trips.
Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole released a statement this Monday addressing Chapackdee’s “disgraceful and disappointing”…
