I pointed out earlier this week the continuing string of criminal acts from military police and security forces in USFK and now Stars and Stripes has provided some more details about the lastest incident involving nine Osan security forces personnel busted for drugs:
An Air Force police officer at Osan Air Base pleaded guilty Thursday to abusing the drug Percocet, becoming the latest in a series of security officers from his unit to face punishment on drug-related charges.
A jury of Air force officers was to weigh a sentence Friday in the court-martial of Senior Airman Chance W. Slaughter, 27, of the 51st Security Forces Squadron, part of Osan’s 51st Fighter Wing.
Slaughter testified he became addicted to the drug while taking it legally after knee surgery, but went on to abuse it often, sometimes taking it with alcoholic beverages.
“I just had to have it,” he testified.
Slaughter is one of nine security police officers from the 51st Security Forces Squadron to face disciplinary action in the wake of an investigation by Osan-based agents of the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations, said Lt. Col. Scott Ecton, the wing’s chief legal officer. Those disciplinary actions can range from non-judicial punishment to courts-martial. [Franklin Fisher, Stars & Stripes]
The article doesn’t say, but I would be interested in knowing if they got busted because someone told on them or if they came up hot on a urinalysis. Either way it is good they got caught and they will hopefully be made example of that even if you abuse presciption drugs you will not get away with it for long.
You can read more about the Percocet Gang over at Lost Nomad.
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