Trooper: Politics Held Up Drug Case Involving Levi Johnson's Mother
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Now an Alaska trooper is alleging that the investigation and arrest of Johnson was delayed for political purposes.
"[A]s soon as investigators realized who the target was...this case became anything but normal," Kyle Young wrote in an email to the union that represents troopers and other Alaska law enforcement officials.
"It was not allowed to progress in a normal fashion, the search warrant service WAS delayed because of the pending election and the [regional] Drug Unit and the case officer were not the ones calling the shots," he continued.
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