Via the WaPo [www.washingtonpost.com]. I missed this while we were out of town for the holidays.

A Haymarket police officer was arrested in relation to the raid of a Great Falls (VA) poker game. It appears he was acting as "security" for the game, in some fashion.

More than a dozen Fairfax police officers raided the house Dec. 15 and interviewed each player twice. Afterward, Rahim and Robert A. Hoffman Jr., 39, a two-year member of the police force in the tiny town of Haymarket, were arrested, police said yesterday.

Rahim, 37, was charged with operating an illegal gambling enterprise and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Hoffman, 39, who has been suspended from the Haymarket force, was charged with two misdemeanors: participating in an illegal gambling operation and being an accessory to an illegal gambling operation.

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...Rahim used Hoffman to guard the game because "he was concerned that there had been robberies in the surrounding Great Falls area."

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Haymarket Town Council members said Hoffman's suspension will last at least until the charges against him have been resolved in court. Meanwhile, Hoffman, whose annual salary is $38,500, will resume being paid Jan. 8.

Hoffman's been blogged before [northerncrown.com], in regards to unrest on the Haymarket Police Department.

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