Aiken area police officer
charged with DUI
AIKEN, S.C. -- A Wagener police
office has been charged with drunken driving. The Aiken Standard reports that
30-year-old Craig Martin of Wagener was off duty but driving a town police car
when he was arrested about 3:30 a.m. Friday. Police Chief Tom Gray said Martin
was relieved of his duties. A sheriff’s report says Martin
was driving his Ford Crown Victoria in circles around a parking lot in Aiken
and traveling very slowly on Highway 39 without headlights. When deputies
stopped him, he acknowledged he was an officer and provided his badge. The report says there was a
case of beer in the car and an open beer in the cup holder. Martin refused to take a field
sobriety test or a breath test.
Police
Officer Arrested, Charged With Illegally Purchasing Prescription Drugs
DECATUR, Ala. (WHNT) – Decatur
Police have charged Officer Timothy Hughes with receiving a controlled
substance. This was a result of an
investigation by Decatur’s Organized Crime Unit and the Morgan County Drug Task
Force. Hughes, 24, was booked in the Morgan
County Jail. He posted a $2,500 bond and
was released.
Decatur Police Chief Ed Taylor
said Hughes illegally purchased prescription medication, specifically
Oxycodone. The department got a tip earlier this week and started an
investigation. Officer Hughes was arrested
around 9 a.m. in the parking lot of the Garden Suites Inn (former the Holiday
Inn) on Wilson Street NE in Decatur.
Officers with the Decatur Police Department’s Special Operation Unit
used a cooperating witness working under their supervision to sell Hughes the
Oxycodone. He resigned after his arrest.
DeKalb police officer arrested
on drug-trafficking charges
A DeKalb County Police officer
was arrested Friday on accusations he helped a ring of methamphetamine dealers,
serving as a lookout and offering police information, authorities said. William Miguel, an 11-year
veteran, is charged with conspiracy to traffic methamphetamine and was taken
into custody Friday morning by DEA agents and Gwinnett County District
Attorney’s Office investigators as he came to work, DeKalb Police Chief Cedric
Alexander said. Miguel, 44, was funneling vital
police information to the head of a drug organization regarding arrests made in
DeKalb County, among other things, Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny
Porter told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Officer
facing charges
A local officer will appear in
court Friday to determine whether he should be charged in an alleged
hit-and-run, drunken driving accident in March. Evan Robitaille, 32, who has
been on paid administrative leave since the alleged incident, is scheduled to
appear at a clerk magistrate’s hearing at Lowell District Court to answer a
summons issued to him by State Police following the March 11 accident. The “criminal summons” was for
operating under the influence of liquor, leaving the scene of an accident
causing property damage, negligent operation of a motor vehicle and failure to
use care in starting, stopping, turning or backing up a motor vehicle,
according to the State Police daily log for March 11. At the hearing, a court
magistrate will review the case and determine if there is enough evidence to
issue a criminal complaint.