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Twenty people, including 14 current and former law enforcement officers, have pleaded not guilty to charges in a Mississippi drug trafficking scheme.

The accused, which include two Mississippi sheriffs, allegedly took bribes to provide armed escort for what they believed were cocaine shipments.

The yearslong investigation involved an undercover FBI agent posing as a member of a Mexican drug cartel.

Twenty people, including 14 current and former law enforcement officers, have each entered a plea of not guilty to charges in a drug trafficking scheme spanning across multiple counties in the Mississippi Delta region of Mississippi and Tennessee.

Two Mississippi sheriffs, Washington County Sheriff Milton Gaston and Humphreys County Sheriff Bruce Williams, were among t

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