A Metro officer has been convicted of a crime against her own neighbors–a family who says they had to move out of state to feel safe.
Contact 13 Chief Investigator Darcy Spears first broke the story this time last year.
She was in the courtroom this week when the judge called the cop out.
“The judge didn’t find you credible, he didn’t find your witnesses credible and he actually called some of your testimony laughable–saying it didn’t pass the laugh test. What should you tell citizens, being that you’re a police officer, about what the judge found?” Spears asked Metro Officer Lourdes Smith as she walked out of the Henderson courthouse late Tuesday. “You have nothing to say at all?”
Inside the courtroom, Smith had an earful for her neighbors, for Henderson cops, even on the stand in her own defense.
Once found guilty, though, she clammed up.
“Her credibility is completely out the window,” says her former neighbor, Victoria Trice.