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Former Arapahoe County Sheriff Patrick Sullivan appears in Arapahoe County Court, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011. Sullivan is suspected of offering methamphetamine in exchange for sex from a male acquaintance. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, RJ Sangosti)

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A pizza sits on the hood of a press vehicle as media watched all day as FBI and IRS Criminal Investigative Division agents serve a search warrant on the home of Washington D.C. City Council member Harry Thomas, Jr., on 17th Street NE in Washington, D.C., on Friday, December 2, 2011. (Pratik Shah./The Washington Times)

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Metropolitan Police block off 17th St NE as FBI and IRS Criminal Investigative Division agents serve a search warrant on the home of Washington D.C. City Council member Harry Thomas, Jr., on 17th Street NE in Washington, D.C., on Friday, December 2, 2011. (Pratik Shah./The Washington Times)

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FBI and IRS Criminal Investigative Division agents leave the scene after they served a search warrant on the home of Washington D.C. City Council member Harry Thomas, Jr., on 17th Street NE in Washington, D.C., on Friday, December 2, 2011. (Pratik Shah./The Washington Times)

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FBI and IRS Criminal Investigative Division agents leave the scene after they served a search warrant on the home of Washington D.C. City Council member Harry Thomas, Jr., on 17th Street NE in Washington, D.C., on Friday, December 2, 2011. (Pratik Shah./The Washington Times)

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FBI and IRS Criminal Investigative Division agents serve a search warrant on the home of Washington D.C. City Council member Harry Thomas, Jr., on 17th Street NE in Washington, D.C., on Friday, December 2, 2011. (Pratik Shah./The Washington Times)

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FBI and IRS Criminal Investigative Division agents serve a search warrant on the home of Washington D.C. City Council member Harry Thomas, Jr., on 17th Street NE in Washington, D.C., on Friday, December 2, 2011. (Pratik Shah./The Washington Times)

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FBI and IRS Criminal Investigative Division agents serve a search warrant on the home of Washington D.C. City Council member Harry Thomas, Jr., on 17th Street NE in Washington, D.C., on Friday, December 2, 2011. (Pratik Shah./The Washington Times)

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Metropolitan Police block off 17th St NE as FBI and IRS Criminal Investigative Division agents serve a search warrant on the home of Washington D.C. City Council member Harry Thomas, Jr., on 17th Street NE in Washington, D.C., on Friday, December 2, 2011. (Pratik Shah./The Washington Times)

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FBI and IRS Criminal Investigative Division agents serve a search warrant on the home of Washington D.C. City Council member Harry Thomas, Jr., on 17th Street NE in Washington, D.C., on Friday, December 2, 2011. (Pratik Shah./The Washington Times)

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FBI and IRS Criminal Investigative Division agents serve a search warrant on the home of Washington D.C. City Council member Harry Thomas, Jr., on 17th Street NE in Washington, D.C., on Friday, December 2, 2011. (Pratik Shah./The Washington Times)

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FBI and IRS Criminal Investigative Division agents serve a search warrant on the home of D.C. Council member Harry Thomas Jr. on 17th Street NE in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Dec. 2, 2011. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** In this Nov. 10, 2010, file photo, Christopher Smeltzer arrives for arraignment in District Court in Candia, N.H., on a charge he beat his wife to death. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)

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In this photo taken during a government-organized tour for the media, relatives of Sari Saoud a 9-year-old boy who was shot dead in Homs three days ago while he was buying cookies from a shop, shout pro-Syrian regime and unity slogans, in the village of Kfarbo in Hama province, Syria, on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. Georgina the mother of Sari blamed "armed terrorists" for killing her son. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)

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** FILE ** Bikers in the Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally ride across Memorial Bridge in Washington, D.C. In Michigan, the repeal of the helmet law is gaining traction. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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Gary Giordano, right, of Gaithersburg, who was detained for four months after the presumed death of his traveling companion, Robyn Gardner, in Aruba, is interviewed by Robin Roberts on ABC television's "Good Morning America" in New York, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011.(AP Photo/Ida Mae Astute, ABC)

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Oakland Raiders football player Rolando McClain is arrested and handcuffed by Decatur (Ala.) Police captain Nadis Carlisle, left, and officer Kirk Hamilton, Thursday afternoon, Dec. 1, 2011. McClain was arrested and charged with assault in the third degree, menacing, reckless endangerment and discharging a firearm inside the city limits in an incident that took place late Wednesday night, Nov. 30, 2011, in his hometown of Decatur. (AP Photo/The Decatur Daily, John Godbey)

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Former Arapahoe County, Colo., Sheriff Patrick J. Sullivan (left) was in Arapahoe County Court on Wednesday to hear a judge raise his bail. He is charged with offering methamphetamine in exchange for sex. Mr. Sullivan was once honored as the nation's sheriff of the year. (Associated Press)

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Law officers last month prepare to arrest demonstrators protesting Alabama's immigration law outside the state's Capitol in Montgomery. Alabama is now requiring special training in the law for all its 16,000-plus sworn law officers because of the law's complicated provisions. (Associated Press)

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Gary Giordano, center, a Maryland businessman who had been jailed in Aruba on suspicion of involvement in the presumed death of his traveling companion, walks through Miami International Airport in Miami with attorney Jose Baez, right, after leaving Aruba, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011. Giordano denies any wrongdoing in the disappearance of Robyn Gardner. A judge ordered his release after ruling prosecutors didn't have enough evidence to justify holding him longer. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)