Nine current and former law enforcement officers were arrested Thursday following sting operations in Illinois aimed at cops who rip off drug dealers. They include,

...two Illinois state parole agents, four police officers, two Cook County sheriff's deputies and a former Seattle police detective.

Here's how it worked:

Typically, an undercover informant led the lawmen to a parked car he identified as that of a drug dealer, and the lawmen would break into it, federal officials said. In most of the stings, the officers would take cash and fake cocaine. The lawmen would keep the cash and the undercover informant kept the bogus cocaine -- preventing those targeted from discovering the drug wasn't real, officials said.

The nine were charged with either attempted robbery of cocaine or attempted possession of cocaine. All will be in jail for the weekend, as bond hearings won't take place until Monday.