KANSAS CITY, KANSAS – A former officer for the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department has been sentenced to federal prison for stealing electronics from houses where his team served search warrants.
32-year-old Darrell M. Forrest was sentenced to 12-months and a day, followed by a year of supervised release.

Forrest pleaded guilty to violating a federal civil rights statute that makes it a crime for police officers acting under color of law to deny or conspire to deny anyone’s civil rights.

Forrest was a member of the KCKPD’s Selective Crime Occurrence Reduction Enforcement Unit (SCORE Unit), which was a special weapons and tactics unit assigned to serve search warrants.

In January 2011, investigators for the KCKPD and the FBI set up a sting operation in which the SCORE Unit was sent to a house that was being monitored. Investigators placed cash, electronic games and other items in the house before the SCORE unit arrived.

In his plea, Forrest admitted stealing $300 cash, two video game cartridges and an Apple iPod Touch from the house.

Forrest also stole a digital camcorder on July 7, 2010, during the execution of a search warrant from a residence in Kansas City, Kan.

Co-defendants are Jeffrey M. Bell, 34, is set for sentencing July 3, and Dustin Sillings, 34, is set for sentencing July 5.