Former Ohio cop gets 20-year prison term

COLUMBUS (AP) — A former police officer has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for conspiring to rob a drug dealer of cocaine and sell it for profit.

Former Zanesville officer Sean Beck was sentenced Thursday in Columbus by U.S. District Judge Edmund Sargus.

The 30-year-old Beck pleaded guilty in May 2008, and later filed to withdraw the plea because he was unhappy with his attorney. Before Thursday’s sentencing, Beck indicated he no longer wanted to withdraw the plea.

Another former police officer and a former hospital security guard were sentenced last year to 6 1‚Ñ2 years in prison as part of the same case.

The FBI says Beck arranged a delivery of cocaine in September 2007, then planned to stage a false police raid once the drug was delivered. The raid never happened.