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PHOENIX, June 24 (UPI) -- A one-time Arizona Department of Public Safety officer played a key role in a Phoenix crime syndicate, authorities say.
The Maricopa County Attorney's Office said Tuesday that Blaine McNeese, 36, has been charged with assisting a criminal syndicate and unlawfully accessing criminal record histories, The Arizona Republic reported.
Prosecutors say McNeese was recruited by the crime gang to take advantage of his access to police databases in a plot to kill a DPS investigator and bury his body in the desert.
"This guy had to go and sell his integrity and tarnish all of us," DPS Director Roger Vanderpool told the Republic. "This shows what extent the criminal element will go to infiltrate law enforcement."
Officials said McNeese left DPS in 2004 after an internal investigation. They alleged he received cash and sexual favors in return for his work for Stewart Younan, 28, identified as the alleged ringleader of the criminal syndicate.
The newspaper said Younan is currently jail in the Arizona Department of Corrections on a 2005 weapons violation.
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