Memphis Police Organized Crime Unit cleared way for steroid dealer

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Ex-cop cleared way for dealer
DeSoto Appeal
Brady Valentine, 38, pleaded guilty to a one-count criminal information, bypassing a grand jury in a plea agreement. Under terms of the plea, a more serious eight-count indictment returned in 2007 that also accused him of dealing in illegal steroids will be dismissed.

Valentine, who faces up to three years in prison, will be sentenced Jan. 15 by U.S. Dist. Court Judge Samuel Mays.

"This is one of those situations where you have to make the best of what it is," he responded when Mays asked if he wanted to plead guilty.

Valentine was assigned to the police Organized Crime Unit and detailed to the West Tennessee Drug Task Force Interstate Interdiction Unit, which patrols the interstates.

Federal prosecutor Joseph Murphy said that in September of 2007 Valentine talked by phone with a known drug dealer he had known for some years about making a delivery of illegal anabolic steroids from Arkansas to Shelby County.
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