Guilty pleas entered in BR City Court cases
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A former city prosecutor and a 23-year veteran of the Baton Rouge Police Department pleaded guilty today in federal court to charges that they accepted bribes to dismiss criminal cases in Baton Rouge City Court.
Flitcher Bell, who resigned Thursday, told U.S. District Judge James Brady that he conspired with unnamed others from 2006 until this month to fix criminal and traffic cases.
Bell also admitted that he worked with an individual identified only as E.J. in a federal bill of information to dismiss a criminal charge in exchange for cash that he received from an undercover FBI agent using the alias of Ahmad Mousa Abd-alsalam.
Former Baton Rouge Police Officer Darrell Johnson admitted that in the spring he accepted cash to cause the dismissal of criminal prostitution charges pending against a person identified in a federal bill of information only as L.J.
The maximum prison time Bell could face is 10 years for conspiracy and use of telephones in aid bribery.
Johnson could get 5 years for use of telephones in aid of bribery.
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