Vincent Carr, a St. Louis police officer accused of corruption and drug dealing , is scheduled to be in court this afternoon, and may plead guilty, court documents show.
Carr and his partner, Bobby Lee Garrett, were arrested by the FBI in December.
Carr faces charges of distributing a controlled substance, conspiracy to commit fraud, making false statements and obstruction of justice. Garrett faces those charges as well as theft of government property.
Both officers were suspended without pay following their arrest, which has triggered a review of the cases that they handled.
Garrett and his lawyers have been vigorously fighting the charges. Carr waived his opportunity to try to throw out some of the evidence against him in January.
Both were on the Crime Suppression Unit, created in January 2007 to address a rising crime rate .
The unit's officers were allowed to dress in plain clothes and were issued unmarked cars and were given the freedom to identify crime hot spots and aggressively pursue chronic criminals.
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