Texas Police Corruption: Texas Rangers Arrest Chief of Police, Rest of Police Department Out the Door But Covington Still Very Afraid
A stone’s throw as the crow flies from Fort Worth is the tiny Texas town of Covington, and if you follow along Interstate 35 from downtown CowTown you’ll be in the heart of Covington in around 45 minutes. So, this story isn’t coming out of some backwoods, rural spot that’s living without the knowledge or influence of modern culture and its conveniences … and its laws.
Covington Police Chief Arrested by Texas Rangers Last Friday
On March 9, 2012, (just last Friday) the Texas Rangers swooped into Covington and arrested its Chief of Police, Wade Laurence, on a felony charge under the Texas Controlled Substances Act Section 481.129, for using a fraudulent prescription to obtain controlled substances. He was handcuffed, taken to jail, had his mugshot taken, and then placed under a $20,000 bond.
The same day, the Covington City Council held a meeting and fired Wade Laurence as their Chief of Police.
Wickedness in High Places: Rogue Police in Covington, Texas
Covington is a small town, officially only around 250 people live there. So most everyone knows what’s up … but the official allegations have sprouted not from back-fence gossip but from accusations coming from Laurence’s fellow police officers. Like former Police Chief Dowell Missildine and former Police Officer Kayla Richardson, who is being heralded as a whistle-blower for bringing some bad things to the attention of authorities, as well as telling Missildine things were becoming so serious that she was afraid for her life in some kind of retaliation.
Kayla Richardson is the brave soul who took this situation to the Texas Rangers, after she learned that the police evidence locker had drugs missing from its inventory and the only Covington Police Department member who wouldn’t take a lie detector test was its Chief of Police, Wade Laurence. Richardson saw that nothing was going to happen even after it was known that drugs had disappeared from the police department’s drug locker, and this riled her up enough that she went to the Texas Rangers for help.
Covington Is Afraid Now That Bad Cop is Free on Bond
Meanwhile, with a low bond, it didn’t take long for Wade Laurence to get released. So, this week, he’s free as a bird while he awaits trial on the felony charge (and maybe other investigations, too).
Covington City Council member Marty Smith has told the media that the community is terrified of these rogue police — which include not only ex-Chief Laurence but a hand full of men who worked as cops alongside him. People in the town are scared of what felonies are yet to be committed in their community by these evildoers.
According to reports of the Texas Rangers as well as media coverage, Laurence has had such an iron hand on this small Texas town that people were afraid of their own police force. Individuals are coming forward telling of things like being threatened with arrest on trumped-up charges as well as having their property destroyed (windshields busted, etc.) in a textbook tale of bullying techniques by out of control Powers that Be.
Texas Police Out of Control: Is Covington All That Unique? Nope.
The ability of a small Texas community’s police force to become corrupt and exceed the police powers entrusted to it seems to be not only readily available to towns and hamlets across the state … all too often, it’s become obvious that ne’er do wells are taking advantage of this chance to rule and reign as they wish, despite the laws they are sworn to uphold.
Behind the badges of places like Covington are other locales we’ve monitored here – like police departments in Aransas Pass, Rosebud, and Cleveland, among others – it’s not just a Bad Apple but an entire system that has broken down as officers entrusted with the public good fall prey to the profits to be made from guns and drugs.
In covering the Covington story, Republic magazine is also reporting on abuses in the Texas town of Tenaha and Shelby County, as well. Seems bad things are happening there almost simultaneously with the bad stuff up near Fort Worth.
The reality of criminal justice in the State of Texas today is that a police uniform does not necessarily carry with it the guarantee of integrity and honesty that many members of the public assume it does. Corruption exists, and it is wise to be wary.
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4 Responses to Texas Police Corruption: Texas Rangers Arrest Chief of Police, Rest of Police Department Out the Door But Covington Still Very Afraid
millie myers says: I wonder if Ole Corrupt Rob “Buster” Collins is still working with the Texas Rangers. He was one of those investigators who needed a shake down for some of the cases he worked on. He would go to bail bond offices an use intimidation to keep them from issuing bonds to certain individuals. He also had several buddies who worked at the county jail who would allow him to go through an inmates personal belongings at check in an take items without documentation. If a search warrant was involved he could be very very very very nasty if you know what I mean. If you were one of Busters catches he would have the correction officers lock the inmate in the booth used for attorneys for hours could be as long as an entire shift and high five the officers for their efforts. Other things would also happen to you because of Nasty Buster. Ole Buster Booger would even go as far as to make evidence appear because he knew he had the resources to get away with it. Oh yeah he was also Racist very Racist. Every case this guy investigated should be review with a microscope for possible wrong doing. Oh yeah he’ll even go as far as calling creditors and making claims without conviction and will sit in court as if he’s an officer with the upmost integrity. If this agent ever needed information to close out a high profile murder case, some one unrelated to the crime who he wants to disappear will be sent away for a long time.
travis says: Texarkana Texas District Attorney is corrupt.I have proof of a violation of the law that has been covered up by the district attorney and others here in texarkana
There is so much I can tell you about corrupt Law Enforcement in Fort Worth area! First they are drugging good law enforcement and taking information, that’s why there are so many problems with corruption. The good guys cant keep information about the corrupt group of law enforcement. I been to fort worth Internal affairs, Arlington internal affairs and fbi dallas and the same thing happen at all three places. I seen detectives and agent taken from behind and I was too and we are all drugged. I was reporting amber haggerman was murdered by a on duty Arlington police officer. When you wake up form the drug no one is remembering anything that has happen to them not even me until months or years later then I started remembering. I am a psychic and get information on crimes so I know about many murders the cops have done. Judge winn from montage county was murdered by a cop, 2 were their at his house. My grandpa larry wheeler was murdered by montage cops 2 at his house in Nacona hills. The DA that was murdered by a Xcop/judge well I knew he was going to kill someone I think I even said da but who actually believes the da will get murdered! I think he might be part of this corrupt group of law enforcement that I know about. I was actually looking up supremacist group/ Aryan brotherhood as being a possible link to this corrupt law enforcement that they might be apart of this group. I was looking at that before the da was murdered.
Also I worked at a fmc carswell federal prison as a correctional officer and the turned in 7 people for corruption. I was fired but that’s because corrupt law enforcement are taking information. I turned in the captian, 2 Lt, nurse, and several correctional officers. They knew and or participated in rapes. my number is 8177078235 if you want to know more.
Same in Massachusetts. Bastards. Hate cops