Sandra Anderson, with her detector dog, Eagle, in 2000, was considered one of the nation's best trainers and handlers of cadaver-sniffing dogs until she was discovered planting fake evidence in cases she worked. Eagle died in 2003.
( ASSOCIATED PRESS )
DETROIT - A Michigan woman once recognized as one of the nation's best trainers and handlers of cadaver-sniffing dogs was sentenced yesterday to 21 months in prison for planting bones and other fake evidence in cases she worked - including a prominent Toledo-area case.
Sandra Anderson, 43, of Sanford, Mich., pleaded guilty in March in U.S. District Court in Detroit to five felony charges, including obstruction of justice and making false statements to federal authorities.
Before she was sentenced, Anderson apologized, telling Judge Patrick Duggan that she let down the law-enforcement officials she had wanted to help.
"I lost track of why I was offering my services," she said.
Anderson had claimed to have conducted 200 searches annually for police and historical preservation groups over 17 years. But Paige Fitzgerald, a Justice Department attorney, told the court that investigators reviewed 50 cases on which Anderson had worked and said she provided no real help.
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