Pubdate: Thu, 16 May 2002
Source: Winston-Salem Journal (NC)
Copyright: 2002 Piedmont Publishing Co. Inc.
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3 TIED TO OFFICERS IN DRUG CASE PLEAD GUILTY

GREENSBORO - Three people linked to the area law-enforcement officers 
convicted of distributing drugs pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court 
earlier this week to drug violations .

Chad Douglas Wilson, Jonathan Eric Apt and Elizabeth Ann Harward, who were 
arrested in late March, appeared in court Monday and Tuesday.

Wilson pleaded guilty to distributing Ecstasy. Court documents said that he 
distributed drugs around Davidson and Guilford counties and supplied 
Ecstasy to former Thomasville police Sgt. Russell McHenry through a middleman.

Apt pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute marijuana and steroids, and 
Harward pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute steroids.

McHenry was arrested last November and became an informant. He told state 
and federal agents that he, an Archdale police officer, three Davidson 
County sheriff's deputies, and two local residents distributed cocaine, 
marijuana, Ecstasy and steroids.

In December, investigators arrested former Davidson County Lt. David Scott 
Woodall, Lt. Douglas Westmoreland and Sgt. William Rankin.

They also arrested former Archdale police Sgt. Christopher Shetley, as well 
as Wyatt Kepley and Marco Aurelio Acosta-Soza, who are not in law enforcement.

All pleaded guilty in March to drug-conspiracy charges as part of a 
plea-bargain agreement.

Sentencing for the defendants will begin next month.

McHenry is scheduled to appear June 7 in court in Greensboro.
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