Narco cop + 1.3 pounds of stolen cocaine + attempted trafficking = probation

[rabs]

To think that some non-cops get years in prison for a few grams of pot! How much does a 15-gram a day coke habit cost, I wonder?


Few days ago in Lincoln County, NM.

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Off the hook?

Ex-ADPS narcotics officer sentenced to supervised probation on cocaine charge
Alamogordo Daily News
By Duane Barbati, Staff Writer
Posted: 03/14/2010 12:00:00 AM MST


CARRIZOZO--A former Alamogordo narcotics agent was sentenced Friday to three years of supervised probation for attempted trafficking of cocaine after he was found to have 1.3 pounds of the substance in his Alamogordo Department of Public Safety unit on March 21, 2009.

Richard Ramsdale was sentenced in Lincoln County's 12th Judicial District Court in Carrizozo before Judge Karen L. Parsons. Ramsdale's case was transferred to Lincoln County because he had worked with Otero County while he was a law enforcement officer with the Otero County Sheriff's Department.

Ramsdale is also subject to random drug testing and warrantless searches as part of his conditions of probation.


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At the time of his arrest, Ramsdale was working as a narcotics agent with ADPS on March 21, 2009. Agents were conducting a surveillance investigation on an unrelated case at the time. One agent noticed Ramsdale's erratic behavior. Agents felt something was wrong with his behavior and transported him to a local hospital out of concern for his health.

At time of Ramsdale's arrest, ADPS director Sam Trujillo said a drug test at the hospital indicated the presence of cocaine.

"He was arrested by state police after being released from the hospital," Trujillo said at the time. "There was no indication (of drug use) prior to Ramsdale's behavior."

Ramsdale said he had a 15-gram-per-day cocaine habit at the time of his arrest.


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[Fumesucker]

1. So a cop can have a 15 gram a day coke habit and none of the other cops notice..

:rofl: :rofl:

:rofl: :rofl:

Sherlock Holmes they're not..

[rabs]

2. Years ago Paul Harvey

said on his radio show that if you wanted to get away with murder, come to Lincoln County.

The tradition continues.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. "I thought he just had a runny nose"

and, he liked to talk real fast.

[hatesthegop]

4. Fucking asshole pigs

they always cover up for their own..I filed bankruptcies too often so that I could keep getting treated for cancer and I wound up in a Federal Prison for 9 months. I never stole from anybody, never took drugs and never physically harmed anyone...think about that!!! That's one of the reasons it is my fervent prayer (although I wouldn't advocate or do anything to implement it) I laugh my ass off when I hear of a fucking pig getting what's coming to him..That goes for a prosecutor or judge too. I always pray every night that we have less cock sucking pigs, probation officers, judges and prosecutors when I wake up!!!

[Odin2005]

5. The pigs protect their own. Facist fucks.

Who watches the watchers?

[Arctic Dave]

6. 15g a day! Holeeee sheeeit.

[nebenaube]

8. impossible... n/t

[Arctic Dave]

10. Or he had a lot of friends.

15g a day, I wouldn't give him a life span of more then a few days.

[nebenaube]

7. heavily cut or he would have blown his heart out! n/t

[arcadian]

9. It seems like they are painting this as "he's got a drug problem"

we should be lenient, but fuck everybody else. Fucking cops.