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8:30 a.m. | Zachary Wester's father, Robert Wester, may testify  MARIANNA — State prosecutors could wrap their case today — well ahead of schedule — in the trial of former deputy Zachary Wester on charges that he planted drugs on unsuspecting motorists during traffic stops. On the fourth day of trial, the state is expected to call Wester’s father, Robert Wester,  who spent more than two decades at the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office. His son worked as a patrol deputy for the department from May 2016 until his termination amid drug-planting allegations in September 2018. The elde...

LIVE | Day 4 in trial of former Jackson County deputy Zach Wester Posted at 10:36 AM, May 13, 2021 and last updated 2021-05-13 13:59:27-04 JACKSON COUNTY, Fla. (WTXL) — Zach Wester, the former Jackson County Deputy fired for planting evidence during traffic stops, faces his third day on trial with witness testimony from those charged and backup officers. Maria Thompson is the She was pulled over by Wester in 2017 because he said he smelt marijuana. “I told him there was no way," said Thompson. "That I had not been smoking marijuana. The only thing I had been smoking was a cigarett...

LIVE | Day 3 in trial of former Jackson County deputy Zach Wester Posted at 11:35 AM, May 12, 2021 and last updated 2021-05-12 12:53:43-04 JACKSON COUNTY, Fla. (WTXL) — Zach Wester, the former Jackson County Deputy fired for planting evidence during traffic stops, faces his third day on trial with witness testimony from those charged and backup officers. The 23rd witness is Jennifer Roeder.She's a crime lab analyst for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. There are 121 photos are entered into evidence. All relate to body camera footage from Teresa Odom's arrest. Derrick Benefield,...

Eight of Wester’s alleged victims testified on Monday and Tuesday, and several more took the stand Wednesday, including a woman who said cigarettes and Dr Pepper were her only vices when she was arrested on a meth charge. Kimberly Hazelwood testified that she and her husband, Jeremy Hazelwood, and their young children had just moved to Marianna when Wester pulled over their white van in June 2018. Wester searched the van after another deputy’s K-9 unit signaled around the front passenger seat and found an Excedrin bottle with meth inside. Prosecutors played Wester’s body camera footage ...

Trial Day 2 of former Jackson County Deputy Zachary Wester "We all need justice." Zach Wester, the former Jackson County Deputy fired for planting evidence during traffic stops, faces his second day on trial with witness testimony from those charged and backup officers. Posted at 11:09 AM, May 11, 2021 and last updated 2021-05-11 18:56:28-04 JACKSON COUNTY, Fla. (WTXL) — Zach Wester, the former Jackson County Deputy fired for planting evidence during traffic stops, faces his second day on trial with witness testimony from those charged and backup officers. Tuesday's court session began ...