California sheriff's deputy on run for 3 days arrested

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

California sheriff's deputy on run for 3 days arrested

Updated 6:10 pm, Thursday, October 29, 2015

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a Kern County sheriff's deputy who allegedly flashed a gun at a 12-year-old girl and escaped from a patrol car while handcuffed.

Sheriff's spokesman Ray Pruitt says Edward Tucker was arrested Thursday afternoon in Oildale, an unincorporated community near Bakersfield. He'd been considered dangerous.

Tucker, an 18-year veteran, had been on leave for a year when he allegedly confronted a group of girls and flashed the gun Saturday night in Bakersfield.

Arriving deputies allegedly found guns and methamphetamine in his car.

The 44-year-old was arrested but released from jail.



Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Kern-County-deputy-on-run-for-3-days-arrested-6599401.php

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[christx30]

1. Wow. He looks like a very healthy,

pretty much put together man. Looking at his picture, I'm absolutely shocked that he could be part of any criminal activity?
Meth? I find that hard to believe.

[Cassiopeia]

6. You don't need to be a user to be a dealer.

Drug trade is a very lucrative business, even more so when your one of the people in charge of enforcing the laws against it.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

8. I think that poster forgot the sarcasm smiley.

[frylock]

2. Even before I scrolled to the bottom, I knew meth was involved.

Bako.

[Tempest]

3. Kern County deputies have a long history of lawlessness

http://www.bakersfield.com/news/2011/04/03/some-local-law-enforcement-have-fallen-on-wrong-side-of-the-law.html

http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/2-Kern-County-deputies-arrested-in-restaurant-fight-257555251.html

When I lived there during the 2000s several of them were arrested for drugs or bringing drugs into the Lerdo jail.

[Codeine]

4. Tweakers in Kern County?!

[padfun]

5. Bakersfield and Lancaster

two meth lab infested area's. Both are well known for Meth labs.

If I had to pick a 3rd meth area, it would be around Prescott Arizona.

[Sunlei]

7. meth-brain in action. That stuff is so freaking addictive and so easy to get or create.