FC: Woman stalked by Michigan cop via police databases is murdered

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://www.freep.com/news/mich/lein8_20010808.htm
Police say suspended cop abused database
  Detective says he checked on wife before her fatal shooting
   August 8, 2001

   BY M. L. ELRICK
   FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

   A State Police detective whose estranged wife was shot dead at the
   Potter Park Zoo admitted using police databases such as the Law
   Enforcement Information Network (LEIN) to check on his wife and her
   acquaintances, according to Lansing police search warrant requests.

   State Police Detective Sgt. Artis White is not suspected of shooting
   Bernita White, 41, on June 23 as she walked with the couple's
   5-year-old daughter. But Lansing Police Detective Jon Priebe, who is
   investigating the case, alleged the requests that "Artis White had a
   motive and may have contracted someone to kill his wife."

   Artis White said he did not tell police he abused the LEIN and
   referred all other questions to his attorney, David Clark. Clark did
   not return calls Tuesday.

   The warrant requests, unsealed last week, portray White as obsessive.

   Priebe wrote that White admitted hiring a private investigator to
   follow his wife and "that he had been inappropriately using police
   facilities such as Law Enforcement Information Network records to
   check on his wife and persons she was seeing."

   [...]




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