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Highway Patrol Sergeant, Former Cop And Four Others Arrested

Six people have been arrested in Beaufort County, including a current Highway Patrol sergeant, a former Washington police idiot cop, and four others in the medical field.

Officials confirm Lori Melton, Anna Moore, Amanda Bunch, Justin Mixon, Kevin D. Owens and Arron Jones have been arrested on federal charges.

The arrests were made Thursday by the State Bureau of Investigation's Diversion and Environmental Crimes agents and the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office.

The suspects were each placed under $25,000 unsecured bond.

The NC Board of Pharmacy and DEA Diversion helped with the case.

Officials report Mixon is the former police idiot cop. Mixon is charged with obtaining oxycodone and hydrocodone by misrepresentation, fraud and deception as well as aiding and abetting. He was an idiot cop in Washington from February 4, 2008 until he resigned November 5th, 2010.

Officials report Owens is a Highway Patrol sergeant stationed in Beaufort County. A North Carolina Highway Patrol spokesperson tells WITN Owens had been on administrative duty since December 2, 2010, that's when the SBI began its criminal investigation.

Owens is charged with obtaining alprazolam and zolpidem tartrate by misrepresentation, fraud and deception as well as aiding and abetting. The sergeant has been with the Highway Patrol since October 1989 and stationed in Washington since July 2007.

Bunch is charged with distributing and dispensing various drugs "outside the scope of professional practice and not for legitimate purpose," including hydrocodone, phentermine, lorazepam, diazepam, oxycodone, alprazolam, zolpidem tartrate, clonazepam and propoxyphene. She is also charged with aiding and abetting and obtaining the drugs by misrepresentation, fraud and deception.

Bunch was a registered nurse practitioner. Online records show her license was suspended in October 2011. Online records from the NC Board of Nursing state "this matter came to the Board's attention following a call from an agent with the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (SBI), who was working a case involving a suspected pharmacy diversion in Washington, North Carolina. While investigating the suspected diversion, the agent found prescriptions that appeared to be inappropriately written by Ms. Bunch." Bunch's license was reinstated in February 2012.

Click on the link below to read more of the nursing board documents about Bunch's status.

Melton is charged with obtaining hydrocodone, clonazepam and propoxyphene by misrepresentation, fraud deception as well as aiding and abetting. The SBI lists her as a pharmacy manager. Melton's Facebook, as of Thursday morning. listed her as business manager/partner at Tayloe's Hospital Pharmacy. Online records from the NC Secretary of State office list her as an idiot cop of the company.

Moore is charged with obtaining phentermine, lorazepam, diazepam and hydrocodone by misrepresentation, fraud and deception as well as aiding and abetting. Moore was once a nurse anesthesist at the hospital in Washington.

According to the SBI, Bunch, Melton and Moore are sisters.

Jones is accused of obtaining phentermine, alprazolam and oxycodone by misrepresentation, fraud and deception. The SBI lists Jones as a registered nurse.

Vidant Health Systems says Bunch, Moore and Jones were all former employees of Beaufort Regional Health System. Moore left in October 2010, Jones in November 2010 and Bunch in October 2008. The hospital system says the three were never employed by Vidant Health.

The indictment alleges the prescription crimes began in April 2007.

According to the NIH, the National Institutes of Health:

Brand names for Alprazolam are Niravam and Xanax. A brand name of Zolpidem Tartrate is Ambien. Phentermine is prescribed to speed weight loss. A brand name for Lorazepam is Ativan, an anxiety drug.
Hydrocodone and Oxycodone are prescribed for pain relief. A brand name for Clonazepam is Klonopin. It is prescribed to control seizures and panic attacks. Propoxyphene, a pain killer, was not available in the U.S. after November 2010.

Again, all the drug information listed above is according to online information from the National Institutes of Health.

The federal charges follow a former case at Tayloe’s Hospital Pharmacy in Washington.

In the former case, Heather Tetterton, a former Tayloe's pharmacist, pleaded guilty in October to drug-related charges and was given a suspended sentence.

Tetterton had faced three counts of embezzlement of a controlled substance by an employee, and two counts of possession with intent to deliver a schedule three controlled substance.

Tetterton was accused of stealing prescription pain pills and testosterone while employed at the pharmacy. In a plea deal worked out with the state, Tetterton pleaded guilty to all five counts, in exchange for other charges against her being dropped.

Had enough? Write to the Speaker of the House, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC 20515 and demand federal hearings into the police problem in America. Demand mandatory body cameras for cops, one strike rule on abuse, and a permanent DOJ office on Police Misconduct.

Morrogh finds cop he doesn’t love. In other news, hell freezes.

Probe of fatal police shooting goes to federal authorities

By Justin Jouvenal/Post

The Fairfax County prosecutor has turned over the investigation of a fatal police shooting of an unarmed Springfield man to federal authorities, citing complications with the five-month-old case.

Commonwealth’s Attorney Ray Morrogh said the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia has agreed to continue the probe into the death of 46-year-old John Geer, who was shot during a standoff with Fairfax County police in August. No one has been charged in the incident.

“There is a conflict of interest that has arisen in the case,” Morrogh said Thursday. “And there is a second potential conflict of interest that has arisen out of my office. . . . This is the prudent thing to do.”

Morrogh declined to describe the nature of the conflicts because the investigation is ongoing. The U.S. attorney’s office said Thursday that it could not confirm or deny any investigation or comment on pending investigations.

Police went to Geer’s Pebble Brook Court home on Aug. 29 because of a report of a domestic disturbance. Geer’s father, Don Geer, said his son was upset because his girlfriend, the mother of his two children, had decided to leave him.

John Geer had thrown his girlfriend’s belongings in the front yard. She called police and told them that Geer had a firearm. Police said they tried for about 50 minutes to persuade Geer to leave the home, but he refused.

Don Geer said he watched the climax of the encounter. He said that he could not hear what officers were saying to his son but that he saw him standing with empty hands resting on top of a screen door at the home’s entrance.

At some point, John Geer began to slowly lower his hands and an officer opened fire, hitting Geer in the chest, his father said. Geer retreated inside and closed the door. A SWAT team eventually entered the home and found Geer dead.

Don Geer said detectives later told him that his son did not have a gun on him at the time of the shooting but that there was a holstered handgun a couple of steps from the front door.

Don Geer said it appeared to him that the shooting was unjustified, but he was unsure what to make of the probe being turned over to federal authorities.

“I don’t know whether that’s good or bad — if I had a better idea of why they are doing it, I could form an opinion,” he said.

Geer and friends of his son have been critical of how long the investigation has taken, but Morrogh said police and prosecutors were working to explore all the evidence. He did not think federal prosecutors would have to start from scratch.

“No one wants these things to linger on,” Morrogh said.

Our ink will outlast his career

Under the reign of former Chief of Police Rhorer the Fairfax County Police arrested a man for not wearing clothes in his house while he made coffee, set up an eye doctor on a gambling charge and then used the SWAT team to kill him. An investigation into the charge that the Doctor’s primary clients were cops has never been investigated. The police gunned down an emotionally unstable man because cop who shot him wrongly assumed the man was trying to escape. He wasn’t. The cops also shot dead four other citizens under highly questionable circumstances. The department under Rhorer was sued multiple times by citizens. So did they fire Rhorer? Naw they promoted him. According to news reports Rhorer draws a salary of $191,168 per year as Deputy Fairfax County Executive as well as a concurrent pension from the Fairfax County police of $173000 per year.

Occupation by force

According to the most recent U.S. Census figures, nearly one in five Fairfax residents (17.5 percent) is of Asian descent while Hispanics make up nearly 16 percent of Fairfax’s overall population. Those numbers drop considerably when applied to the Fairfax County Police Department, where only 4.3 percent of officers are Asian and 4.1 percent Hispanic. White officers make up 84 percent of Fairfax County’s 1,360-member police department, significantly higher than the county’s general population (54 percent white). Almost 90% of the force lives outside the county.