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Two of five charges have been dismissed
for a Rochester police officer accused of tipping off drug dealers
and taking money to deliver narcotics.


      Vanessa Mason is still charged with one felony count of warning
a subject of a surveillance and two misdemeanor counts of
misconduct by a public officer. Mason's attorney is working to have
the remaining charges dismissed as well.


      A Rochester man who's serving a jail sentence has retracted his
story that he helped Mason transport drugs last year. Richard
Dalton says he felt pressured by investigators to cooperate. He
said he doesn't even know Mason, despite what he had said
previously.


      Mason was put on administrative leave last April.

Two of five charges have been dismissed
for a Rochester police officer accused of tipping off drug dealers
and taking money to deliver narcotics.


2 charges against Rochester officer dismissed

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