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Georgia Cop Tipped Off Friends About an Informant in a Joint FBI-Police Probe
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Polk County police detective from Felton, Ga., was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison Tuesday for interfering in a joint FBI-police probe into a chop shop in Polk County and tipping off friends about an informant in the case. Mark Howell Sparks, 40, was convicted in July…