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Films Himself Planting Drugs At Crime Scene

A Baltimore police officer has been suspended and charges against a suspected drug dealer were dropped after a body-camera recording emerged that defense lawyers said appeared to show an officer planting a bag of illicit drugs at the scene of an arrest in January.

The video, which was released by Maryland’s Office of the Public Defender this week, seems to show an officer placing a plastic bag of white capsules inside a can in an alley while two other officers look on. He can then be seen walking back toward the street, at which point he appears to turn on his body camera before announcing that he is going to check the alley.