Jack Camp Arrested
Jack Camp Arrested – Jack T. Camp is a 67-year-old judge for the United States District Court. He was recently found arrested for purchasing cocaine, marijuana, and other illegal substances from a stripper who was also an undercover FBI informant. Camp was also found to be having an affair with the woman. He was arrested and then released on a $50,000 bond.
Camp was arrested in Atlanta on Friday, after he was found to be in possession of illegal weapons, as well as using illegal drugs on several different occasions, according to an affidavit released by the FBI after his arrest.
Camp has served as a judge since 1988, when he was appointed to his position by former President Ronald Reagan.
His lawyer, Bill Morrison, has said that they will not plead guilty, and that the case was a private matter between his client and the client’s family. Morrison also said that the case would not affect his job as a judge.
According to the FBI, Camp was found to purchase illegal drugs from a stripper in Atlanta, who was also an FBI informant. He was videotaped making these purchases and then arrested after the incident.
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he was not found guilty he just got arrested
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, March 11, 2011
Former Senior U.S. District Judge Sentenced to One Month in Prison for Misuse of Government Property and Drug Offenses
WASHINGTON – Former Senior U.S. District Court Judge Jack T. Camp Jr., was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Atlanta to one month in prison for unlawful possession of controlled substances charges and unlawful conversion of government property, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Lamkin of the FBI’s Atlanta Office and Director Vernon Keenan of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
Camp, 67, a former Senior U.S. District Judge in the Northern District of Georgia, pleaded guilty in November 2010 to an information charging him with one count of unlawful possession of controlled substances, one count of aiding and abetting the unlawful possession of controlled substances by a previously convicted drug felon and one count of conversion of government property. Camp was sentenced today in the Northern District of Georgia by Senior U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan for the District of Columbia. Judge Hogan was sitting by designation in the Northern District of Georgia.
As part of his plea, Camp admitted that between May 2010 and Oct. 1, 2010, he unlawfully used and possessed cocaine, marijuana and Roxycodone, a Schedule II controlled substance. Camp also admitted to giving an individual, whom he knew had a prior felony drug conviction, money to purchase cocaine, Roxycodone and marijuana for their joint use. Camp admitted that he unlawfully gave the individual a U.S. District Court laptop computer for her personal use. Camp was arrested on Oct. 1, 2010, after attempting to purchase drugs from an undercover FBI agent posing as a drug dealer. Camp further resigned his commission as Senior U.S. District Judge. On Feb. 28, 2011, Camp voluntarily surrendered his license to practice law in the state of Georgia.
Camp was also sentenced to pay a $1,000 fine and $825 in restitution. He was sentenced to one year of supervised release.