JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Attorney General Jim Hood said Friday that two former Columbia police officers have been sentenced after pleading guilty to conspiracy to transfer controlled substances.
Hood’s news release said 35-year-old Michael Steven Bullock of Hattiesburg, pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts of conspiracy to transfer a controlled substance; his co-defendant 45-year-old Herbert Cocroft, of Sumrall, pleaded guilty to one count.
A Marion County Circuit Court judge sentenced Bullock to 20 years in prison. Cocroft, who assisted authorities in their investigation, had his five-year sentenced suspended. He also got five years of supervised probation. He was ordered to pay $1,000 to the Crime Victims Compensation fund.
“It is disheartening when law enforcement officers admit to violating the very laws they are sworn to uphold,” Hood said in the news release.
He said the case was investigated by investigators Ronnie Odom and Danny Welch of the Attorney General’s Office with agents of the Mississippi Bureau of Investigations.
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