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RPD officer sent ‘sexually suggestive’ messages to head of a dispensary he was regulating, documents show

By Reis Thebault | November 23, 2016 | 7
Richmond Police Department. File photo by Grace Oyenubi.

Court documents submitted in an ongoing case indicate that Richmond Police Department Sergeant Michael Rood sent “numerous inappropriate and sexually suggestive” text messages to the head of a medical marijuana dispensary he was tasked with regulating.

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Gang murder trial focuses on detectives’ late-night interrogation of Blacknell

By Robert Rogers | February 10, 2012
joe blacknell and marcus russell

The prosecutor let the image linger overhead. The photo’s stark shades revealed a slim teen boy, hat backwards, teeth bared in a sneer. The jury saw in his thin arms an AK-47 assault rifle, right hand on the trigger, left hand braced under the barrel, a long “banana clip” magazine jutting out the bottom. His…

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