The Dec. 14 arrest of former Dallas Cowboys and Chicago Bears receiver Sam Hurd is just part of a larger investigation into an alleged drug distribution network, said former federal criminal prosecutor Richard B. Roper, who is now a criminal defense attorney in the Dallas office of Thompson & Knight. "No doubt there will be other efforts by law enforcement to obtain additional evidence," Roper tells FOX4 anchor Steve Eager. Among the actions agents might take is searching his house, obtaining his cell phone records or his computer files. "They can trace funds out of bank accounts. They can search hard drives and find names and locations of individuals and follow the leads," Roper says. Media reports indicate that police investigations into Hurd's attempt to buy large amounts of cocaine and marijuana began in July 2011, when he was still a member of the Dallas Cowboys, and concluded when he personally met with an undercover agent Dec. 14 at Morton's The Steakhouse in Rosemont, a Chicago suburb. At that meeting, Hurd allegedly told an informant that he wanted to buy "five to 10 kilograms of cocaine and 1000 pounds of marijuana per week for distribution in the Chicago area," according to the complaint. "It's a lot of drugs," Roper tells Eager. "He was allegedly buying multi-kilogram amounts of cocaine on the streets. A drug dealer who buys wholesale quantities like that will cut cocaine three to four times, to make even more money" said Roper, who used to prosecute such <b>...</b>
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