KopBusters Strikes Again--Second Sting Lands Kop Behind Bars

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YouTube - KopBusters Strikes Again--Second Sting Lands Kop Behind Bars (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MsMUvgxTEc&feature=player_embedded)

just realized the full video isn't released yet, but here's an article on Raw Story about the arrest

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/09/15/exclusive-gypsy-cop-accused-of-%20soliciting-minor-brought-down-by-kopbusters/

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here video from his previous raid several months ago

I'm having trouble getting the video to appear as YouTuBE, but here is the URL htt p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQzLfmZQw4g

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Texas Attorney General Candidate strikes again with his reality show, KopBusters. Barry Cooper assisted the Combine Police Department with the execution of a felony search and arrest warrant for recently fired Chief of Police, Michael Meissner.

Several citizens filed complaints through KopBuster’s website detailing Meissner’s willingness to violate citizens’ civil rights while on patrol as Chief of Police for Little River Academy, Texas. Barry knew of Meissner’s suspicious work history noting he had worked for over ten different agencies in the past six years. Coincidentally, the busted kop had applied for a job with Barry for KopBusters a year earlier.

After learning the complaints were legitimate, Barry contacted Combine Police Department’s Investigator, Jay Hoskins, to report KopBusters had opened an investigation on Meissner because Barry knew Detective Hoskins had investigated Meissner for wrongdoings in the past. The detective advised Barry he was currently investigating Meissner for other crimes so Barry went undercover as a journalist and befriended Meissner and began relaying information to Detective Hoskins.

During the joint investigation, the Little River Academy fired Chief Meissner because of a large number of continuing citizen’s complaints.
Cooper acted as an undercover journalist informant and aided in the investigation by befriending Meissner and pretending Cooper was going to place Meissner on the reality show as a good cop.
On Monday, September 14, 2009, Detective Hoskins obtained seven felony arrest warrants for Meissner and a search warrant for his home located in Arlington, Texas. Barry was asked to assist the Combine S.W.A.T. team in locating Meissner who was placed in custody late Monday night.
One of the Internet's top news sites reports in their Raw Story Exlusive: (http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/09/15/exclusive-gypsy-cop-accused-of-soliciting-minor-brought-down-by-kopbusters/)
"Tactical officers, who had set up a staging area just one street from Meissner’s Arlington, Texas home, raided the residence at approximately 1:45 p.m. on Monday, but the suspect was gone. He was arrested later that evening after returning to his home. Meissner actually called Cooper to warn that his home had apparently been raided. Cooper then called police and relayed Meissner’s location. A judge has set Meissner’s bond at $1.5 million.
For the man whose living is paid for by a DVD series on how to grow, (http://www.nevergetbusted.com/v2/order.php) sell and smuggle marijuana without being detected by the police, he certainly seemed to have a natural rapport with the officers on-scene. One of them even asked Cooper how his former law enforcement mentor in Odessa was doing. “Oh man, he was a legend back in my day,” Barry replied. “Unfortunately, he planted meth on an innocent woman and I had to bust him.”
Steve Allen, police chief in Combine, Texas, called Cooper’s brand of law enforcement activism an “excellent resource.” “Police officers need all the help they can get,” he said. “There’s a lot of things, for example, [Barry] may have drawn him out of the woodwork for us — something that we couldn’t do that he did. So, I think [KopBusters] is an excellent resource and tool for us.”
Cooper noted the Combine S.W.A.T. action was a model of what police can do right when serving an arrest and search warrant.


Sources say Meissner was arrested for sexually explicit text messages sent by Meissner to an underage high school boy. The texts suggests Meissner had an ongoing sexual relationship with the minor. Meissner was charged with the following crimes and booked into the Tarrant County Jail:

Dallas County Warrants
Engaging In Organized Criminal Activity--2nd degree felony
Obstruction Or Retaliation--3rd degree felony
Misuse Of Official Information--3rd degree felony

Tarrant County Warrants
Aggravated Promotion of Prostitution--3rd degree felony
Sexual Performance By A Child--3rd degree felony
Engaging In Organized Criminal Activity--2nd degree felony
Criminal Attempt Possession or Promotion of Child Pornography--1st degree felony
Barry states, “This is a wonderful case of KopBusters working with good police officers to catch a krooked kop.” Barry promises to continue busting korrupt kops to bring attention to his campaign and states he is “restoring the Texas criminal justice system one kop at a time.”

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Barry Cooper fights the law, wins: Odessa drops all ‘KopBusters’ charges

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/0824/barry-cooper-fights-law-wins-odessa-drops-kopbusters-charges/