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Local FDLE Crime Analyst In Drug Probe Resigns
February 4, 2014
A Florida Department of Law Enforcement crime-lab analyst in Pensacola resigned Monday, amid an investigation about whether he might have compromised hundreds of drug cases across the state.
A resignation letter released by FDLE identified the man as Joseph Graves, a crime-lab analyst supervisor.
FDLE Commissioner Gerald Bailey held a news conference Saturday to announce that the agency had started an investigation stemming from the discovery of missing prescription pain pills from the evidence room of the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office. The missing drugs had been replaced with over-the-counter medications.
Bailey said that each case involving missing drugs had been analyzed by the same chemist, who overall had processed 2,600 cases for 80 law-enforcement agencies since 2006. At the time, Bailey did not name the man, who has not been charged. Graves did not give an explanation for his resignation in the brief letter.
Pictured: FDLE’s Pensacola Regional Operations Century on North Palafox Street. Courtesy photo for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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6 Responses to “Local FDLE Crime Analyst In Drug Probe Resigns”
Someone who had a good job, and ruined it over drugs. He deserves what he gets…
In reference to bewildered’s question of “who is to blame” for the beggar in the parking lot…you can blame the folks that give money to the beggars. They wouldn’t beg if it didn’t pay. If you want to actually help the homeless, donate to a local charity that cares for them. When you “pay” the beggars, that money goes directly towards alcohol and crack cocaine.
@Who is to blame – the well to do drug pushers or the young drug users?
How about both? Both bear personal responsibility for what they CHOOSE to do.
I hope they will find out who put these drugs back into circulation and make them pay dearly. If necessary punish the lawyers who stop at nothing and have no conscience or shame to get their sorry clients acquitted. All for the sake of money!
Last evening around 7 pm a young man was begging in the Publix parking lot on 9th Avenue. He even asked my young grandson for money! Who is to blame – the well to do drug pushers or the young drug users?
Goes to show you how easy it is for those prescription drugs to grab anyone, from those high on their perch to those lying in a ditch.
“Graves did not give an explanation for his resignation in the brief letter.”
I am sure that he did not include a forwarding address as well.