Convicted carnival operator Randall Wayne “Red” Roach on Tuesday testified he paid former Savannah-Chatham police chief Willie Lovett to keep him out of jail for his gambling operation.
“I was paying the policemen to make sure I didn’t go to jail,” Roach told a U.S. District Court jury, identifying both Lovett and former Savannah police Sgt. Gregory Capers.
“I always called and told Mr. Lovett we was coming (to town) to keep from going to jail. We would hope to make sure he was there if we needed him.”
Roach, a 54-year-old Ludowici resident, is serving a 15-month federal prison sentence after pleading guilty to conspiring with Lovett and others to protect his commercial gambling operation from law enforcement.
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