HPD Officer Julissa Diaz pleaded guilty in 2020 to federal charges of conspiracy to distribute cocaine after abusing her position in an undercover sting. She admitted that in 2018 she conducted a traffic stop to arrest a decoy courier so that her co-conspirators could steal 8 kilograms of cocaine from the vehicle:contentReference[oaicite:41]{index=41}:contentReference[oaicite:42]{index=42}. Diaz was sentenced in 2021 to 87 months in prison and was fired from HPD for her role in the drug trafficking scheme:contentReference[oaicite:43]{index=43}:contentReference[oaicite:44]{index=44}.
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