Attorney General Steve Marshall announced today the conviction and life sentence of Reginald Eugene Scott, 45, of Huntsville, for trafficking in cocaine.
To secure this life sentence, the attorney general’s office, in conjunction with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency and the Huntsville Police Department, for the first time employed the Agent Billy Clardy III Act to use “enhanced investigative techniques” to uncover Scott’s drug trafficking organization operating in Madison County, according to a release from Marshall’s office.
Passed by the Alabama legislature in 2023 in honor of fallen Huntsville police officer Billy Clardy III, this act created a wiretapping program for state and local law enforcement to secretly monitor and record people suspected of felony drug crimes, according to its text…