HOUSTON — A former Houston
police officer was sentenced Thursday for his role in protecting a load of
cocaine for a drug trafficker.
The Houston Chronicle reports
(http://bit.ly/1qoFPaC ) that former policeman Michael Miceli was spared prison
time despite a request by a prosecutor that he serve about four years.
Miceli was sentenced by U.S.
District Judge Gary Miller to one year of probation, six months of home
confinement and 100 hours of community service.
Court papers indicate that Miceli
and an accomplice, who was also a Houston policeman, were arrested in uniform
in 2013. They were set up by an informant working with a Drug Enforcement
Agency task force.
The former officers were
convicted of using their patrol car to protect a cocaine shipment for a drug
trafficker. The newspaper reports that the men each accepted $500 for the
escort.
