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A Baltimore Grand Jury has indicted a ninth Baltimore police officer on corruption charges after footage emerged of him planting drugs on a crime scene in July, CNN reported Thursday.

Officer Richard Pinheiro, 29, is one of nine former officers to be indicted on racketeering or evidence tampering charges throughout the past year. The rash of corruption scandals culminated this week with the firing of Police Commissioner Kevin Davis, as well as the resignation of two of his top subordinates. Pinheiro maintains that he did nothing wrong and was merely re-enacting the recovery of drugs for his body camera, CNN reported.

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