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"A veteran Jackson police officer is on trial accused of accepting $250 to let a suspect walk.Sgt. Richard McGahey is charged with bribery. McGahey, who is on administrative leave, has worked for the Jackson Police Department for about 20 years.During Tuesday's opening statements, prosecutors from the Attorney General's Office played several phone calls and a video they said are between McGahey and an informant. They claim he accepted $250 to give a field release to a suspect. According to the attorney general, a field release is a release for someone with a misdemeanor warrant. If an officer sees that in the system, the attorney general said they won't go after a suspect for an arrest.A field release does not dismiss the charges, prosecutors said.The defense said the transaction wasn't a bribe, it was a loan. They said McGahey and the informant had a long working relationship.\"The tapes don't show Sgt. McGahey ever saying or agreeing to do anything in return for a bribe. In fact, they don't even show anyone actually offering a bribe,\" defense attorney Michael Cory said in his opening statement.\"He decided that his salary as a police officer wasn't enough, so he came up with a way to supplement his income and that way was by selling field releases,\" Assistant Attorney General Stanley Alexander told jurors.The first witness on the stand Tuesday was an FBI agent who worked on the case and handed it over to the Attorney General's Office. Testimony continued Wednesday.If convicted, McGahey faces up to 10 years in prison."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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