All formal detention hearings for the 15 charged in Operation Rockfish have been continued.
The motion asking the court to hold all defendants in Operation Rockfish until their trial gives a more detailed glimpse into how the operation came about and what the 15 charged allegedly did.
There's nothing like the conspiracy theorist.
As the 15 charged in the Operation Rockfish police corruption scandal await their formal detention hearings, court records show they will all be represented through the Federal Public Defender's office.
The 15 people charged in Operation Rockfish will be held in federal custody until their formal detention hearings, according to Halifax County Sheriff Wes Tripp.
As detention hearings for the 15 people charged in Operation Rockfish are expected to begin today in Raleigh, Northampton County Sheriff Jack Smith told the Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald of Ahoskie he has fired the five deputies involved.
The Operation Rockfish police corruption sting contains a 54-count federal indictment that alleges 13 current and former law enforcement officers and two other individuals protected narcotics shipments and cash proceeds during transit along the East Coast for what they believed was a large-scale drug trafficking organization that was actually an undercover operation by the FBI.
A widespread investigation into police corruption in Northampton County was spearheaded by information received by the Halifax County Sheriff's Office which was then passed on to the FBI.
