Posted on 07/30/2019 2:29:38 PM PDT by Mr.Unique
A Lewiston police officer who died from a drug overdose at his home in February was seen pocketing drugs during an arrest three weeks earlier, an investigation found.
Officer Nicholas Meserve, 34, 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 Lt. David St. Pierre said Thursday.
The drug seized during that traffic stop, which resulted in one arrest, was fentanyl, St. Pierre said.
On Feb. 8, Meserve found dead in his Webster Street home from an accidental fentanyl overdose.
Meserve worked for nearly 10 years with the Lewiston Police Department. Before joining the department, he worked for the Androscoggin County Jail in Auburn.
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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!)
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
When he heard the police motto was “To Protect and Serve” he thought it said “Self Serve”.
That’s about the best way to post to this story.
The guy obviously had major issues.
Crooked cop learned that lesson too late.
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.
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.
I’m not buying it either.
For the list.
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....
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