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Title: Cop charged with murder drove accomplice to scene, source says
Source:
The Washington Examiner
URL Source: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/b ... rce-says-8662433-79422222.html
Published: Dec 16, 2009
Author: Bill Myers
Post Date: 2009-12-16 13:06:38 by Happy Quanzaa
Keywords: Affirmative Action, DeeCee, ghetto thug w/ badge
Views: 769
Comments: 3
A D.C. police officer used his squad car to drive at least one accomplice to the scene of a robbery, then watched as one of the would-be robbers was fatally shot, The Examiner has learned. Officer Reggie Jones is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday afternoon to answer felony murder charges. Police say he plotted and helped execute the robbery of a rival drug dealer in far Southeast on Dec. 1. During the incident, one of the crew opened fire, killing fellow robber Arvel Alston. According to law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation, the plot unraveled as follows: Jones met the robbery crew at an auto detailing shop in Prince George's County on the night before the robbery. There, a file cabinet was opened to reveal a cache of weapons. On the night of the robbery, Jones took at least one of his confederates in his squad car and the group drove to the 4300 block of Fourth Street, SE. The plan was to rob the rival -- whose name was withheld by police because he's a key witness -- force him into his own car and drive him back to his apartment so that the robbers could take even more. Jones drove ahead of the crew in his squad car, hoping to clear out drug dealers from the block so that the robbers would have an easier time. With Jones parked a few feet away, the crew surrounded their rival and took his car keys. Alston jumped into the driver's seat while the rest of his crew tried to force their rival into the car. But the rival resisted and police say Arvel Crawford -- Alston's son -- opened fire. A bullet struck 40-year-old Alston in the chest. Crawford filed several more shots and wounded the rival. Jones, watching, told one of the robbers, "I either need to get out of here or I need to start shooting." He sped off in his squad car, according to a top law enforcement source. Witnesses told police that a squad car had been spotted before the robbery, but authorities treated the case as a typical street crime until last weekend, when authorities arrested alleged robber Rashun Montea Parker. Parker told detectives that Jones had helped in the robbery. Detectives then drove him out to the Prince George's County auto shop and, while passing by, Parker saw Jones sitting in an unmarked squad car. "That's the cop," he told detectives, according to a law enforcement source. Parker, a six-year veteran of the police department, was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon. He has admitted being on the scene when the shooting started but has denied any role in the robbery, the law enforcement source said. Police and prosecutors are now poring over dozens of records of criminal cases in which Jones was involved. As a gun recovery specialist in the department's Major Narcotics unit, Jones had access to crate loads of vital evidence and authorities are worried that he might have tampered with cases to help his friends and relatives in the drug crew. Authorities searched Jones home, the auto detailing shop and have impounded two official vehicles assigned to Jones, sources said. He's scheduled to be arraigned in D.C. Superior Court at 4 p.m. Wednesday.
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