COP AND WIFE ARRESTED FOR BEING DRUG DEALERS IN 07.



ZANESVILLE,OHIO COP ARRESTED FOR SELLING DRUGS, DONALD E. PETERSON AND HIS WIFE SERRITHA THOUGHT THEY WERE ABOVE THE LAW.I WONDER HOW LONG THEY HAD BEEN DOING THIS?



Postby KC » 19 Dec 2007, Wed 8:46 pm
ZANESVILLE - A Zanesville police officer who was arrested last week by agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation failed to show at his administrative hearing Tuesday morning. 

Now Chief Eric Lambes will make a recommendation to the city safety director regarding Officer Donald E. Peterson's status as an employee in the next couple of days. 

Peterson was arrested at his home along with his wife, Serritha D. Peterson, 29, a week ago when agents from the FBI and deputies with the Muskingum County Sheriff's Office served a search warrant at the home. 

They were charged federally with one count of distribution of a controlled substance and one count of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance. 
Also arrested that day and charged with the same two counts were Shelly M. Tyson, 32, Steven Gibson, 65, and Gary Moody, 50, of Zanesville. 

Peterson, who has been an officer for the city for the past two years, was scheduled to appear before Lambes and Brandford Tuesday morning, but Lambes said neither Peterson nor anyone representing him bothered to show. 

Last week after Peterson was arrested Lambes said he did not feel Peterson would be employed by his office very much longer. 

Mayor Butch Zwelling is holding a press conference this morning at City Hall along with Lambes and City Law Director Bob Brandford to discuss Peterson's arrest. 

Peterson is the third officer to be arrested since Oct. 1. 

Sean Beck and Trevor Fusner, both officers with the city, were arrested that day by the FBI. Also arrested was Genesis HealthCare Systems Police officer Chad Mills. 

Beck was indicted Oct. 25 on two counts of drug trafficking in Percocet, three counts of possession of a firearm in the commission of a drug trafficking crime and one count of conspiracy to traffic drugs. 

If convicted, Beck faces up to 60 years in prison. 

Neither Mills nor Fusner have yet been indicted by a federal grand jury, but were arrested on one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. 

Beck remains in the Franklin County Jail after a federal judge refused to allow him bond. Mills and Fusner have both been released on bond and are under house arrest with electronic monitoring systems. 

Peterson has also been released on bond with an electronic monitoring system while his wife, Moody, Tyson and Gibson were all released the day of their arrests. 

Lambes has said that the FBI has assured him no other officers are involved in any drug activity. Lambes also has said that Peterson's activity was not connected to Beck's drug activity. 

Peterson faces up to 40 years in prison if convicted. 



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