Alaska cop to be sentenced for witness tampering
A police officer in North Pole, Alaska, pleaded no contest to a charge of witness tampering last Wednesday.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner says that officer William Perry was accused of trying to bribe a fellow police officer so that he would not appear at the drunk driving trial of one of his friends. Perry offered to pay off the debt owed on a motorcycle which the other officer had purchased at a business owned by Perry's father. The outstanding debt totalled nearly three and a half thousand dollars. Perry was arrested last month after several telephone conversations were recorded without his knowledge by investigators. In exchange for his guilty plea several other charges against Herry - including extortion - were dropped. Under the terms of the deal he will spend no more then one year in jail.
