As his family watched, 25-year old Dekalb Police Officer Dorian Williams hung his head before Federal Magistrate Alan Baverman, waiving his rights to a preliminary hearing and hoping to be freed on bond.
Williams, a cop for almost five years, was not wearing his police uniform. Instead, he was wearing the orange scrubs of a jail inmate.
He is accused of protecting what he thought was a cocaine dealer, of offering to shoot to kill if the deals went bad. In reality, federal prosecutors say the dealer was a federal informant, the cocaine was fake and now, Williams is one of ten cops accused of taking bribes.
All 15 defendants in this case now face possible indictment by a federal grand jury.
Like the other two men in court today, former Dekalb County Deputy Monyette McLaurin and a civilian named Gregory Lee Harvey, Williams will be released on $10,000 bond.