Let me explain, I thought the cop was a drug user.

As has been pointed out in past posts, sometimes you just gotta laugh where you can to avoid crying.  In an effort to maintain my own mental health I have taken to blogging about some of the less than brilliant criminals I have encountered in my career and some of the fun situations that arise from prosecuting criminals in a small town. 

One of the best arguments to live a drug free lifestyle was brought to me by our Department of Public Safety Drug Officers (We give them the pseudonyms of Brisco and Curtis).  These Brisco and Curtis, who are not undercover, but dress as if on the streets get in with the drug users and develop information on local drug dealers.  While most those who are in the drug community know them, not everyone does so they do, on occasion, successfully buy drugs from unsuspecting drug dealers and then bust the dealers.

Another responsibility of the Brisco and Curtis is to develop relationships with drug users and then use the drug users for law enforcement purposes.  The drug users do this for one of two reasons.  #1, they are being paid or #2, they are working off charges so they won’t be prosecuted for their own criminal conduct for which they have been arrested.  Before a drug user starts to work with an officer, they meet with them, enter in to a contract and then report to them daily. 

One of our local druggies, just for fun we will call him Walter White, who sales just so he can keep himself in product has been busted several times by Brisco and Curtis.  He has been arrested by them for simple possession and even sale of a narcotic drug.  He goes to prison, gets out and the cycle repeats.  He gets out and then Brisco and Curtis then see him selling and arrest him again. 

At one point, Walter White decided that he did not want to go back to prison, so he agreed to work with the officers as an informant.  He entered in to a contract and successfully gathered evidence which resulted in the arrest of several other drug dealers. 

Approximately 6 months after W.W. completed his contract, our drug officers went up to him and

asked if they could by any drugs from him.  Now this started as a joke as Brisco and Curtis have arrested him multiple times and W.W. had even worked with them.  Walter did not catch on of get the joke and immediately asked Brisco and Curtis “Do you have any money.” The officers realizing that this guy was so stoned that he did not remember them, promptly showed Walter the money, gave it to him and bought some meth from him.  Right after the money and the meth were exchanged Brisco and Curtis arrested the defendant for possession and sale of a dangerous drug. 

As Walter was arrested Curtis asked the newly arrested defendant “how did you not recognize us, we have known you for ten years?”

Whites only response was “Ah sh$# I knew I recognized you.”  The defendant was successfully prosecuted and remains in prison today.”

The moral of the story, don’t do drugs.  When you are so impaired that you cannot recognize someone that has arrested you multiple times and you have even worked with as an informant, you have gone way too far down the druggie rabbit hole.