Apparently, there aren’t any actual drug dealers to buy drugs from anymore
An undercover Iredell County Sheriff’s Office deputy recently purchased drugs from undercover Statesville police officers, raising questions about communications between the two agencies.
Statesville Police Chief Tom Anderson said undercover officers from his department were working a week-long case when they met with someone interested in selling a small amount of marijuana.
The undercover SPD officers met with the individual in the parking lot of a local store to make the deal, Anderson said.
But the officers became suspicious that the seller was, in fact, an undercover deputy, Anderson said.
SPD officers placed a call to Capt. David Ramsey, who heads the sheriff’s office narcotics unit, and were told the seller was not a deputy, Anderson said.
“At that point we proceeded like we normally do and placed him under arrest,” the chief said.
After the arrest, investigators from the sheriff’s office arrived and confirmed the seller was an undercover deputy and he was released, Anderson said.
You can’t write situations this funny.
OK, maybe you can, but you’d have to be high to think of it.
This is in my AO, and no, I’m not surprised at all. The Keystone cops are a paradigm of professionalism compared to some of our locals.
I’m just curious how the Statesville PD became suspicious that the guy was an undercover deputy? Was his “cover” that poor? Maybe recognized him from around the court house? And his own Captain disowned him? WTF is up with that–is he that poorly informed? Was the guy freelancing? I mean, the budget cuts have been deep…