In Tulia Texas, a $5 million settlement has been reached between local officials and 46 people, mostly African-Americans, who were wrongly arrested on fabricated drug charges. In 1999 a singled undercover narcotics agent arrested over 10 percent of the town’s African-American population on made-up drug charges. All of the Tulia defendants were pardoned on August but not before some spent five years in jail. In addition to the $5 million settlement, officials agreed to disband a federally financed 26-county narcotics task force that carried out the arrests. The arresting officer Tom Coleman, who was named Texas Lawman of the Year in 1999 for his work in Tulia, will go to court in May to face perjury charges.