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"Ex-agent tied to drug buy jailed
Related story: Former Tulsa agent accused of faking drug buy indicted on four counts
A former federal agent who is implicated in a fabricated drug buy was in the Tulsa Jail on Thursday night.
Brandon J. McFadden, a former agent with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, was booked into the jail on a hold for U.S. marshals, jail records show.
McFadden, 33, along with Jeff Henderson, an undercover Tulsa police officer, has been implicated in a federal investigation in which prosecutors allege that the pair fabricated a drug buy that sent a Tulsa man and his daughter to federal prison in 2008, records show.
Prosecutors allege that McFadden and Henderson coached a drug informant and fabricated a drug buy on May 8, 2007, according to a federal motion that was unsealed and filed last week in Tulsa County District Court.
An FBI agent arrested McFadden about 7 p.m. Thursday, according to jail records.
McFadden resigned from the ATF about one year ago, an ATF spokesman has said.
Henderson, who has not been charged with a crime, has denied the allegations. His attorney, Zach Smith, has said Henderson and McFadden conducted a proper and legal search in the drug case.
The alleged fabricated drug buy by Henderson and McFadden led to
the convictions of Larita Annette Barnes, 33, and Larry Wayne Barnes Sr., 59, on federal drug charges, records show.
The Barneses were released from federal prison July 2 because the informant in the case, Ryan Logsdon, said he lied about the drug buy, the court filing unsealed last week states.
Larry Barnes had served about one year on two 5 1/2-year sentences, which were to run concurrently.
Larita Barnes had served about one year on two concurrent 10-year sentences.
Henderson was put on paid leave by the Tulsa Police Department last week, one day after the Tulsa World reported that the federal pleading had led to the Barneses' July 2 release from federal prison.
Meanwhile, Tulsa County District Attorney Tim Harris has ordered a review of cases in which Henderson has been involved.
There could be more than 100, records indicate.
Harris' office also acknowledges that it was contacted by Jane W. Duke, a special prosecutor looking into alleged law enforcement corruption in Tulsa. Duke is the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
Harris stated in a court document that Duke's office could not release any information because of an ongoing investigation by a grand jury.
McFadden is expected to make his initial appearance before a federal magistate today in U.S. District Court in Tulsa, said Neal Kirkpatrick, his attorney.
McFadden went to work as an ATF agent July, 15, 2002, ATF officials said. He worked in Tulsa with the Special Investigations Division of Tulsa Police Department, records show. McFadden resigned from the ATF on Sept. 25, 2009."
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