AFFIDAVIT DETAILS OFFICERS' ACTIONS

Over the past year, Davidson County law enforcement officers
routinely transported drugs in unmarked sheriff's department
vehicles, sold narcotics they seized in raids and drew up fictitious
search warrants in order to steal money and drugs from other dealers.

Officers also broke into the homes of drugs dealers to steal hundreds
of thousands of dollars in cash and discussed killing an officer they
feared had talked to federal drug enforcement officials about their
exploits.

That information comes from a 33-page affidavit released Friday by
Anna Mills Wagoner, U.S. attorney, Middle District, North Carolina.

The affidavit was in support of search warrants used to gather
information against officers charged in the cases.

"We can do as much of that as you need," David Scott Woodall, a
lieutenant with the Davidson County Sheriff's Department, is alleged
to have told an another officer as he handed him four 1-pound
vacuum-sealed packages of marijuana for resell.

According to the affidavit, the men were sitting in an unmarked van
belonging to the Davidson County Sheriff's Department at the time of
the exchange.

The information released by Wagoner's office Friday follows the
arrests earlier this week of four law enforcement officers, including
three who worked for the Davidson County Sheriff's Department.

Arrested were Woodall, 34, as well as sergeants William Monroe
Rankin, 32, and Douglas Edward Westmoreland, 49, all of the Davidson
County Sheriff's Department's vice and narcotics unit. Also arrested
was Archdale Police Sgt. Christopher James Shetley, 35.

In addition, Wyatt Nathan Kepley and Marco Aurelio Acosta Soza were arrested.

Neither of those men were in law enforcement. Kepley is the son of
Davidson County Commissioner Billy Joe Kepley.

The arrests were part of an eight-month investigation by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation and the State Bureau of Investigation.

An indictment returned by a federal grand jury last week alleges that
the men conspired to distribute 5 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride,
more than 100 kilograms of marijuana, anabolic steroids and Ecstasy.
The men are being held in jail in Forsyth County.

Information released in the affidavit Friday details the proceedings
that led to the officers' arrests.

The affidavit was drawn by Philip A. Celestini, a special agent with
the FBI in Greensboro.

According to the affidavit, much of the information leading to the
arrests came from a police officer whose name has not been made
public.

He was arrested Nov. 5 on other drug charges.

Following his arrest, the officer agreed to cooperate with state and
federal investigators, providing information that led to the arrests
of Woodall, Rankin, Westmoreland and Shetley.

The affidavit states that the un-named officer became involved in the
sale and distribution of illegal drugs in April - first dealing in
anabolic steroids and then progressing to other drugs as he earned
the trust of the other officers and they made the drugs available.

"I don't know why cops are after other cops," Woodall is alleged to
have told the un-named officer at one point. "I wouldn't (care) if a
cop pulled up and had a pound of crack on him."

The search warrants supported by the affidavit are for the search of
several residences, vehicles and storage buildings alleged to have
been used by the officers.

The affidavit details numerous instances where the officers are
accused of buying, selling and stealing drugs, cash and guns.

Among those instances:

Woodall said he, Westmoreland and Rankin had broken into Kepley's
house on at least three occasions and stolen more than $160,000 in
cash. On Nov. 2, Woodall and the un-named officer drove to a mobile
home in East Spencer where drugs were believed to be sold. According
to the affidavit, Woodall kicked open the door to the mobile home
with his gun drawn. After holding two Hispanics held at gunpoint, the
officers took four guns, $900 and 312 pounds of marijuana.

They later sold the guns and marijuana.

Woodall discussed with Shetley and the un-named officer throwing down
a pill if occupants of a motel room in Archdale refused their request
to search it. The occupants granted the officers permission, however.
The officers found 7 grams of marijuana in the pockets of one of the
suspects.

According to the affidavit, the marijuana was given to Shetley.

In late April or early May, Woodall and Westmoreland discussed
killing Rankin after they worried he'd talked with Drug Enforcement
Administration officers during a steroid investigation. Woodall and
Westmoreland didn't think Rankin "had the heart to take the heat"
from federal agents. Woodall told the un-named officer about planting
a pound of marijuana on a man who had complained to Davidson County
Sheriff Gerald Hege about Woodall being a dirty officer.

Woodall said he and Westmoreland "roughed the guy up pretty good."
Woodall and Westmoreland took between $2,000 and $3,000 from a
Hispanic male during an arrest and split the money.

When the man later went to the Davidson County Sheriff's Department
to complain, no one would believe him and "they finally just ran him
off." On Nov. 29, the un-named officer wore a concealed recording
device to a meeting with Woodall that was observed by Celestini as
well as other officers from the FBI and State Bureau of
Investigation. At that meeting, Woodall said Hege had earlier
confronted he and Westmoreland about rumors that they were selling
illegal drugs.

The men denied the allegations.

While meeting with the un-named officer, Woodall also said he could
move 400 pounds of marijuana immediately if he had it.

During a recorded conversation on Dec. 6, Shetley bragged about
taking $3,000 from a traffic stop and then hiding the arrest warrants
he drew on the passenger.