Posted on 01/08/2009 8:59:58 AM PST by AUJenn
DECATUR, Ala. (AP) — Sgt. Faron White's job running a squad that targeted drug dealers, gamblers and other organized crime in a northern Alabama city earned him accolades but was filled with pressure. Add a rocky marriage, ill father, unexpected household expenses and gambling losses, and somewhere along the way, the decorated veteran officer snapped, police said Tuesday. White is accused of staging his disappearance, staking himself with $2,500 in confiscated drug money and flying off to Las Vegas to try to win back thousands of dollars to pay his debts. He didn't act alone, police said. A Decatur police volunteer — 29-year-old Sarah Richardson — is accused of helping White scatter papers from his desk to make it look like he may have struggled with someone before being abducted. Police say they were romantically involved. Their ruse didn't fool detectives for long, said Decatur Police Chief Ken Collier. "The investigators involved didn't fall off the pumpkin truck last week. They sensed something was wrong early on," he said. Federal marshals caught up with White, 48, in a Hampton Inn hotel lobby Monday night, three days after he was last seen working late in his office in Decatur, a Tennessee River city of 55,000 people. Long a respected officer who had been with the department more than 20 years, White is now charged with theft. Also arrested was Richardson, who authorities say helped White get to Las Vegas by accompanying him to Nashville, Tenn., to catch a flight. Police believe she was going to join him later and has been charged with with hindering prosecution. Collier said it appeared White was stealing confiscated drug cash from his office safe and that thousands more may be missing.
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Nothing strange about it.
This kind of crap happens all the time. People just say screw this, and bail out.
You have to be pretty damn bad at math to steal $2500, especially from your employer. That’s what, maybe 2 paychecks? Now he’s lost his entire career. Dummy!
It shouldn’t take long for the “cops can do no wrong” crowd to show up and extol everyone to calm down, there’s always 2 sides to every story, you’re only getting the media’s side, and even if he is a scumbag, he had a hard job and should be forgiven and should be let loose on the populace again with back pay and extra ammo.
Oh, and he's probably been stealing small time drug money for the past decade, got some saved up for the good times in Vegas with his new honey...
Yeah, his “new honey” is supposedly 29 years old. But the photo of her looks about 20 years older. I feel bad for his wife and children.
If he left his wife for that, his wife must be...Well, you know...
Yeah, sure....lets give the guy a drug test. I’m betting he fails. To mentality come up with a plan like this...you really need to be doped up.
Vegas and all those cities that live off gambling are full of losers all looking for "just that one break". Add this guy to the list.
Gambling was his drug of choice.
This sort of thing happens all the time. You can find stories every day about some bookkeeper absconding with a company’s money for one last shot at winning in a casino. This only different because he absconded with drug money.
Ah shucks...I bet shes got a real purty tooth.
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