A former DeKalb County deputy police chief pleaded guilty Friday to conspiring to take bribes from a businessman who hired him to intimidate a former girlfriend and to threaten associates and employees.

Prosecutors said Donald Frank was, in effect, the “personal enforcer” for Atlanta businessman Amin Budhwani. The conspiracy allegedly involved DeKalb Police Lt. Willie Daren Durrett, whose federal charges are pending, accordig to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

“This defendant sold his badge and acted as a private citizen’s personal enforcer in exchange for cash,” U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said.

According to the FBI investigation, Budhwani asked Durrett in September 2008 for help ending a relationship with a girlfriend, and Durrett allegedly brought in Frank, who was once the head of security for former DeKalb CEO Vernon Jones.

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