Posted on 01/04/2008 11:23:24 AM PST by microgood
The acting Killian police chief allegedly traded firearms for narcotic pain pills with undercover agents to help his wife, according to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Baton Rouge on Thursday.
Acting Killian Police Chief Joseph Guy Crawford Jr., 38, allegedly told federal agents that his wife’s prescription did not provide enough pills to keep her pain-free, the affidavit says.
The affidavit did not say why the woman allegedly needed the narcotics, and U.S. Attorney David Dugas said he could not comment further on Crawford’s arrest.
Crawford was arrested Wednesday after trading a .38-caliber pistol and $40 for 20 doses of fake oxycodone, the sworn statement by U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms and Tobacco agent D. Christian Ladner says.
Crawford arrived at the Springfield meeting location in his police uniform and patrol unit, the affidavit says.
He also allegedly made a trade on Dec. 17 with undercover agents, exchanging a 12-gauge shotgun and $40 for 30 hydrocodone pills, the affidavit says.
The affidavit was filed in federal court as part of a criminal complaint signed by U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen C. Reidlinger on Thursday in order to arrest Crawford on federal drug possession counts.
Crawford, 19259 Austin St., Springfield, remained in the Livingston Parish Prison Thursday on state counts of possession of a stolen vehicle, possession of narcotics and possession of a firearm while in possession of narcotics, according to jail records.
Crawford also allegedly attempted to sell a stolen vehicle to undercover troopers Wednesday, according to a State Police news release.
Crawford is scheduled for a hearing today to set his bond, jail records show.
In the meantime, the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office will assist the town of Killian with patrols, Killian Mayor Kathleen Abels said Thursday.
Also, Crawford has been suspended without pay until further notice, Abels said.
The town’s one full-time police officer and its auxiliary officer will carry out traffic patrols in the town, Abels said. The Sheriff’s Office will provide a criminal patrol until the town can hire a new police chief, she said.
The town also is accepting applications for a new chief of police through Jan. 11, she said.
Crawford had been the town’s acting police chief since Dec. 11, when then-Police Chief Lloyd Wild III resigned, she said. The Board of Alderman appointed Crawford a reserve officer in July and then assistant chief in August on the recommendation of Wild, Abels said.
Voters had approved a proposition in September 2006 that allowed the town’s aldermen to appoint the police chief rather having town voters elect one, she said. However, Wild, who was the elected chief at the time, was allowed to complete his term, she said.
After Wild resigned in December, the town was looking for a new chief before Crawford’s arrest, she said. Abels said she thinks Crawford would have applied, but he had not submitted an application before his arrest.
It sounds to me like she has a drug habit.
Didn’t he think anyone would catch on? Especially when the police force had no more guns?
Nice to know that the drug problem is fully under control and that there are no more drug dealers. We even have to have federal agents pretend to be drug dealers to make arrests.
Sounds like another victim of the failed war on drugs...when doctors cannot prescribe the proper amount and kind of pain medicine for fear of a federal investigation, it has gone too far...I have been denied pain medication from doctors and told exactly this....If my wife (or myself for that matter) was in extreme pain, i would go anywhere and do anything to get pain relief drugs, even if i had to buy them on the streets.....again, it is a travesty that this war on drugs has gone this far.....
The government should get out of the business of telling chronic pain sufferers that they can’t have pills. I’ll bet he’s sorry that he participated in the failed war on drugs only to be bitten in the ass by it.
Most likely that is the case, but it is hard to know without really knowing why she has this pain. A man sworn to uphold the law and breaking the law in order to get her the narcotics, is most likely subsidizing a drug habit. In a nation of prescription pain medication zombies, most likely you are right about this.
Failure to provide sufficient pain relief to the badly injured and those in chronic pain is the biggest scandal in medicine today.
What you said.
FMCDH(BITS)
It’s terrible that doctors are afraid to prescribe pain medications because of the DEA. By the way for those experiencing nerve pain, Lyrica is a God send. My heart goes out to those in chronic pain.
FMCDH(BITS)
That’s because some doctors tend to overprescribe pain medicine. The pain medicine starts to lose its effectiveness at the same time people get hooked. The doctors are then liable for making junkies out of their patients. I know a doctor that is fighting the feds now. She basically became the Oxy dealer. She even had her nurses forging documents to keep people in Oxy. She was VERY popular and made quite a bit of money doling out Oxy.
Oxy is not a good long-term solution for pain.
Is there a good (non-toxic, non-addictive, and effective) long-term solution for pain?
He’s gone beyond funding people he believed to be drug dealers, he went far enough to supply them with guns. Those watching the gun grabbers should take note of this corruption on the inside of “enforcement”.
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