Top Cop Smokes Pot
 

Thursday, October 07, 2004

The best place to get high in town may have been the police station.

Cops in the small eastern Pennsylvania town of Weatherly (search) had been complaining for months about the smell of marijuana smoke in the office, the pot pipes lying around, the seized drugs that disappeared.

On Wednesday, their chief of 10 years, Brian S. Cara (search), was arrested by state troopers, reports The Morning Call of Allentown.

"I was really shocked to find out everything he was supposed to have done," Weatherly Mayor Joseph E. D'Andrea told the newspaper. "If he has had problems and needed help, we could have helped him."

The borough of 2,600 people, about midway between Wilkes-Barre and Allentown, has three full-time and six part-time police officers.

Cara, 38, did not immediately return a phone message left at his home.

State Attorney General Jerry Pappert said the probe started in Sept. 2003 when Weatherly cops told state authorities suspicious things had been disappearing for months.


There were the plastic envelopes of cocaine that mysteriously "exploded" after having been placed in the evidence locker — an unlocked drawer.

There were the times when cops showed up unexpectedly at the station only to find Cara there alone and the place reeking of pot smoke.

There were the joints and pot pipes cops noticed in Cara's desk drawer.

Finally, a "reverse sting" was set up this summer. On Aug. 2, one of Weatherly's officers told Cara that two ounces of pot had been seized and were in the office.

Also new to the office was a hidden video camera.

State drug agents told a grand jury they watched Cara smoke some of the pot later that same day, then go back for more no less than eight times on Aug. 3. All of it was caught on videotape.

On Aug. 4, it all came down. Cara was seen smoking pot five times before 9:15 a.m. Then he packed a pipe, tucked it into his pocket and went out on patrol.

Later that day, state agents with a warrant searched his desk and found drugs and drug paraphernalia.

Cara was made to undergo a blood test, which came back positive for marijuana, and he allegedly admitted smoking pot from the evidence locker.

He was immediately placed on paid suspension, but the paychecks may end following his formal arrest.

"We're not his judge and jury, but we can't continue paying him and filling in for him at his salary," D'Andrea said.

Cara was charged with four misdemeanors: obstructing justice, criminal attempt to obstruct justice, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.

He was booked and released on his own recognizance. His first preliminary hearing was scheduled for Nov. 17.

Wow, 5 times before 9:15 am

I have a lot bigger problem with him being fucking a hypocrite than a pot head.

bet he could put away some do-nuts.
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The mutherfuggers are such hipocrites. So many of them arrest and abuse people for doing the same things they do.

So many of them drink and drive AND do drugs and then they act like jackboot aholes when they others for doing the same.

Prick c0cksuckers...

ROFL


You have to have the best "words typed/laughs received" ratio on the Planet.

What a stupid cop to smoke dope at the station not thinking people couldn't smell the reek of the smoke let alone him leaving pipes around. The other officers would be able to smell it on him. I have a hard time believeing that they didn't know this about the cop a long time ago.

I concur.

What bothers me is the double standard or should I say doobie standard. All kidding aside, one of the officers said if he needed help they could have gotten him help. Typical cop horseshit. They are willing to help their own, but the rest of us would be treated like crimnal scum. I can hear the Public Enemy song in the background-you know what I'm talking about.

Wow! I didn't think this EVER happened.

:clap:

cops get caught for doing drugs? pft, there goes my want to be a cop.

The only thing I've experienced that was close to this was cops taking our beer when I was in HS. They'd let us go, but they seized the beer.. and drank it themselves at their cop parties.

It pissed us off, because hell... it was hard to get beer. We couldn't exactly just run to QT and buy more. It was hard to get too pissed though, due to the whole "not taking us to jail" thing... :shrug:

Drug penalties are severe. The people this guy busted most likely did some real time. Meanwhile he's getting high in the station.

Some people just have no conscience.. :shake:

Yeah, you got it!

You also have to relinquish your membership in the human race. You officially become a turncoat.