Ex-police officer charged with giving drugs to addict-friend
Source: Associated Press
Updated 3:28 pm, Friday, September 22, 2017
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A former police officer in Vermont has been charged with taking heroin seized in a drug raid and giving it to an addict with whom he was having an intimate relationship.
Former Royalton officer John Breault appeared in U.S. District Court in Burlington on Friday for an initial court hearing on a heroin distribution charge. He was released with conditions and is to appear in court in October.
His lawyer said the 31-year-old Breault, who resigned last week, was trying to help a friend and has never done drugs.
The criminal complaint filed by an FBI agent said Breault supplied the woman with drugs this summer. The woman was an opioid addict and Breault removed heroin and prescription medicines from a police evidence closet in July and supplied her with enough to get through the week without going into withdrawal, the agent said in the complaint.
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