MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – A Prichard police officer charged with abusing his position to protect guilty people and frame the innocent admitted to the allegations after his arrest, a federal investigator testified Thursday.
FBI Special Agent Evan Fischer testified that Emanuel Naman Dotch II has been under suspicion since he worked as a Mobile police officer years before joining the Prichard department. The agent testified that Dotch acknowledged that he extorted people on the street, accepted bribes and set up an Atlanta lawyer and his driver by engineering an unlawful arrest on bogus charges related to planted drugs.
Fischer testified that Dotch, 50, admitted that his conduct has been extensive.
“He’d been doing it for a long time,” he testified…