| · The FBI are investigating civil rights violation claim made
by DEA agent. The incident involves Reading officers. An African
American Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent stated that his civil
rights were violated during a traffic stop conducted by the pair in town
last November.
The complaint has been filed with the FBI by Attorney Richard Sinnott,
and it claims that DEA Special Agent Paul L. D. Russell Jr., was illegally
searched, detained, arrested and
Reading Police Chief Ed Marchand was out of the station at a meeting
this morning and
The incident is under investigation by the FBI because that is the agency
charged with
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