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Dec. 22, 2011

Probation officer charged with intimidating witness

By Andrea Estes

 |  Globe Staff  

  December 21, 2011

Federal prosecutors filed the first criminal charges from their investigation of the state Probation Department yesterday, arresting an acting chief probation officer in Western Massachusetts on charges that he intimidated and harassed a witness who was about to be interviewed by the FBI.

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