Former Republican 161st District state representative candidate Thomas Ross waived the reading of his indictment and pleaded not guilty this morning in U. S. District Court in Springfield.
Ross, 36, Joplin is charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and amphetamine, distribution of cocaine and amphetamine and unlawful use a communication facility (a telephone) in connection with the conspiracy.
The charges are all related to an alleged plot by Ross to plant drugs on his primary opponent Louise Secker.After his arrest last month, Ross dropped out of his campaign and the Jasper County Republican Central Committee selected Secker as his replacement.
Ross remains free on bond.
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What can you say? Another so called 'law and order' republican wit
h some 'issues' allegedly!!
524, exactly! as we know only republican politicians have issues! It's definitely not a politician thing in general...
5:24PM, If this guy was a LWNJ Liberal Socialist Dem, they would have elected him as a Criminal, not asking for him to step down and keep re-electing him in office where he would make millions for himself and his family living off the government and the real hard-working taxpayers.
The President of the United States can’t fill the seats his own party hands him, while ordinary Americans are lining up in parking lots to read about his friendship with a convicted sex offender.
Trump is mentioned more than 3,000 times in the trove of Epstein-related files released by the DOJ, with the files’ release being among the most persistent liabilities of Trump’s second term. However, the scandal has largely been overshadowed by the president’s deeply unpopular war against Iran, which a majority of Americans believe was launched in part to “distract from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal,” according to a survey from Data for Progress.
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