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 This morning State Attorney Glenn Hess revealed more about an ongoing investigation in Jackson County Sheriff's Deputy Zachary Wester. 
  
  
  
 And, body camera footage released Thursday, allegedly shows Wester planting drugs during a traffic stop. 
  
  
  
 Wester, who was fired Thursday, is accused of planting drugs and tampering with evidence in dozens of cases. 
  
  
  
 Prosecutors say they are reviewing about 263 cases in total. 
  
  
  
 In some instances, the charges have since been dropped but prosecutors say they are still examining the cases Wester was involved in to determine just how many innocent people may have been arrested. 
  
  
  
 Wester's attorney, Steve Meadows, declined to comment noting that the investigation is still ongoing. ||||| CLOSE An unknown item can be seen in Wester’s left hand around the 4:53 minute mark. Tallahassee Democrat 
  
 Jackson County Sheriff's Office Deputy Zachary Wester as seen in a dash cam video. (Photo: Special to the Democrat) 
  
 A judge vacated sentences of at least eight people in state prisons and correctional facilities who were arrested by a former Jackson County deputy accused of ginning up traffic stops and planting meth on unsuspecting drivers. 
  
 Circuit Judge Christopher Patterson entered the orders Wednesday in the Jackson County Courthouse in Marianna, about an hour’s drive west of Tallahassee. State Attorney Glenn Hess also announced in court documents that charges would be dropped in the cases, all of which involved former Deputy Zachary Wester. 
  
 “(An) investigation conducted by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office into the professional conduct of Deputy Zach Wester has revealed facts that undermine the state’s confidence in the case,” Hess wrote in documents filed in each of the cases. 
  
 Patterson also ordered Jackson County Sheriff Lou Roberts to take custody of at least five of the inmates, transport them back to the county and release them immediately. 
  
 The inmates, all of whom were convicted on methamphetamine and other drug charges, were being held at correctional facilities from Quincy to Lake City. One of the inmates had been arrested twice by Wester, according to court records. 
  
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 Meanwhile, the State Attorney’s Office said charges have been dropped against thirty-plus other defendants who were arrested between 2016 and 2018, when Wester worked as a patrol deputy for the Sheriff’s Office. One of the defendants was a juvenile. 
  
 Hess on Wednesday said his office is reviewing a total of 263 cases involving Wester dating back two years. 
  
 The Florida Department of Law Enforcement opened an investigation into Westeron Aug. 1 at the request of the Sheriff’s Office. The case is open and ongoing, and no charges have been filed against him. Wester, 26, of Marianna, was fired Sept. 10. 
  
 No one answered the door at Wester’s home off Highway 71 in Marianna after a reporter knocked on Wednesday afternoon. His attorney, Steve Meadows of Panama City, told reporters he would not comment on the pending case. 
  
 Hess told the Tallahassee Democrat on Wednesday that he lost confidence in Wester after seeing the deputy’s body camera video from a Feb. 15 arrest of an Alford woman, Teresa Odom, on charges of possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia. 
  
 CLOSE Deputy Zachary Wester holds an unknown item in his left hand. Tallahassee Democrat 
  
 In the video, Wester can be seen holding something in his left hand before he begins searching the woman’s pickup truck and finding a similar-looking item, presumably the meth. The Democrat obtained a copy of the video on Wednesday; the State Attorney’s Office released it to media outlets on Thursday. 
  
 Wester went to work for the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office in May 2016. Before that, he worked about nine months as a deputy for the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office. He worked under the previous Liberty County sheriff, Nick Finch, and members of the command staff under Sheriff Joe White were unfamiliar with him until news broke on Wednesday. 
  
 “We are fully prepared to work with FDLE and the State Attorney’s Office if they wish to conduct a review of any case files or case records,” said Liberty County Capt. John Summers. 
  
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Student:
A former Florida deputy was allegedly so corrupt that dozens of people arrested by him are going free, the Tallahassee Democrat reports. Zachary Wester, a Jackson County deputy from 2016 to 2018, reportedly planted methamphetamine on unaware drivers during needless traffic stops—and that's how it appeared to at least one state official who saw this body-cam footage of Wester searching a vehicle on Feb. 15. Per the Jackson County Floridian, State Attorney Glenn Hess wrote that stills from the video "show Deputy Wester place a clear plastic baggie in a white pickup truck that he had stopped and for which he had been given permission to search." Now officials are vacating sentences for at least eight people behind bars, dropping charges for 30-plus defendants, and investigating a total of 263 cases involving Wester during his Jackson County years. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement started investigating Wester on Aug. 1 and he was fired Sept. 10, but no charges have yet been filed against the 26-year-old. His attorney declined to comment in view of the ongoing investigation.