Lewiston police officer who died from fentanyl overdose seen pocketing drugs during arrest

Bangor Daily News ^ | July 25, 2019 | Christopher Burns

[golux]

Lewiston police Chief Brian T. O’Malley said that no officers within his department had knowledge of Meserve’s substance use disorder nor his possession of narcotics. O’Malley has said that his department conducts regular reviews of an officer’s use of force, sick time usage, job performance evaluations and complaints from the public, but none of the reviews indicated that Meserve had been “battling a drug dependency issue or addiction issue.”


Clearly just a great American Hero who had a disorder... Not an evidence thief liar or druggie loser trash, (which is what non-badged people are when we overdose.) If only he could have planted that evidence! God Bless this Hero, the TSA, and ALL who keep us safe.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

If I wasn’t peeing in a cup every few months all those years in the Army, I kinda missed it, LOL!

Wish I had known THEN what a ‘clean specimen’ was worth back in the day; I could’ve retired earlier, LOL!

(j/k! I would NEVER do that!)

[JudgemAll]

My question is what the f does a police need a union for?

The Union is not going to be there when a criminal jumps on you or tempts you in drug deals. I’d be hard pressed to see a Marine pulling his Union card while facing combat. Wtf ...

This stuff is a big joke.

And do not get me started on their dum polygraph questions screening criminals, extortionists and murders out when abortion or abandoning a pregnant woman does not get defined in there in any type of crime or failed finances...

The whole language in the justice system is perverted at the outset; it is immoral and gets people on technical faults, regardless whether they are actual predators or not

[Brooklyn Attitude]

When he heard the police motto was “To Protect and Serve” he thought it said “Self Serve”.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

That’s about the best way to post to this story.

The guy obviously had major issues.

[bgill]

Crooked cop learned that lesson too late.

[csvset]

He was probably crooked when he worked at the prison. Saw an opportunity to become a cop so he get in on the real action.

[Oatka]

was assisting Maine state troopers during a traffic stop on Jan. 18, when he was seen pocketing drug evidence that had fallen on the ground

Lewiston police Chief Brian T. O’Malley said that no officers within his department had knowledge of Meserve’s substance use disorder nor his possession of narcotics.

Yeah, right.

[Mr.Unique]

I’m not buying it either.

[Mr.Unique]

For the list.

[trebb]

And being so potent that a very very very eensie teensy weensie dose can be fatal exacerbates the problem...folks who have been accustomed to doing long lines of coke see a few flecks of a powder and figure, what the Hell, go for it....