Former Centre, Alabama, police officer Michael Kilgore has been charged with criminal conspiracy to commit a controlled substance crime/distribution. The charges came after several drivers claimed Kilgore planted drugs in their vehicles during traffic stops. According to AL.com, Kilgore was employed by the police department less than a year, and the Centre police began reporting a "significant number of arrests, many of them drug related" starting two months after he joined.
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