Nebraska Republican State Senator Arrested

[Citizen Daryl]

http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/852692.html

Nebraska State Senator Arrested
Ray Mossey of Bellevue faces fraud, weapons charges

State Sen. Ray Mossey of Bellevue was arrested Friday on suspicion of prescription fraud and carrying a concealed weapon.

Mossey, a retired Omaha police officer, was taken into custody at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Someone in the hospital's pharmacy called police when Mossey tried to fill prescriptions for painkillers seemingly from several different doctors. He was released from jail after posting bail.

The 36-year-old Republican was tapped by Gov. Mike Johanns in 2002 to fill a seat left vacant when Jon Bruning was elected Nebraska's attorney general. Mossey currently serves on the Legislature's Judiciary, Agriculture, and General Affairs committees.

Mossey was a police officer from 1992 until he was forced to retire in 2001 because of a back injury suffered when a drunken driver hit his cruiser. Before working for the Omaha Police Department, Mossey served two years as a deputy sheriff for Sarpy County. From 1986 until 1990, he was in the U.S. Air Force as a security police officer.

Mossey is seeking re-election, facing retired Gretna Public Schools superintendent Gail Kopplin in November.

[clydefrand]

1. Repugs are coming unglued!!

[Trajan]

2. So he was arrested for prescription fraud ? ...

Hmmmmm .... sounds familiar ....

Let me think ....

Ehem ...

[Citizen Daryl]

3. Now that they've shown us the moral high ground ...

... let's all smoke a bowl and watch the Greedy Oil Profiteers disintegrate.

[NMDemDist2]

4. geez it is a tough week for the morality party isn't it?

swinger's clubs, "penis enlargement devices" in court, drugs& guns and F- bombs

and to top it all off, F9/11 #1 at the box office! :evilgrin:

[acmavm]

5. Oh my goodness, another republican, and a local one at that, bites the

dust.

[proud patriot]

6. I wonder if it was oxytcontin

:think:

[Nite Owl]

7. Sex scandal, Governor has to

resign in face of impeachment, now this. CNN should be going 24/7 on these juicy scandals. People want to hear this stuff. Oh, they're Repukes not Dems? Never happened then.

[Don_G]

8. That's Very Stupid

Filling multiple prescriptions for pain killers from different Doctors at the same pharmacy.

Even a 12-year-old street-wise kid knows better than to try that.

[Endangered Specie]

9. Conservative Republican Christian Moral Family Values.... hard at work

</sarcasim>

[mom cat]

10. Don't you just love it. All of the dirt is coming out all at once!

[Endangered Specie]

13. At least Clinton didnt ask monica to blow him from a suspended cage...

while whipping her ass and smaking his balls with chains.

(see: Jack Ryan)

[Dover]

11. If I were a Pug, I'd need a whole lot of painkillers too! lol!

How else can they live with themselves?

[keithyboy]

12. Evidently conservatives need a lot of pain killers to live with themselves

Rush is a good example of the RW hypocrisiy regarding breaking the law and illegal drug use. I wish Rush and Mossey would be sent to the same prison that those welfare moms who are in jail because they were present when their boyfriends were picked up.

[Dover]

14. Is it payback for the Dem guy who resigned on 'sex charges'?

Seems the timing is interesting anyway.