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Escambia Sheriff’s Office Crime Tech Arrested For Stealing Drugs
May 20, 2018
An Escambia County Sheriff’s Office crime scene technician has arrested for allegedly stealing narcotics.
Christine Rollins, 41, was “stealing narcotics of the deceased from the ECSO evidence building,” according to the Sheriff’s Office. She was charged with with trafficking hydrocodone, trafficking oxycodone, petit theft and possession of a controlled substance without a prescription. She remained in the Escambia County Jail with bond set at $72,100.
Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan ordered Rollins be terminated.
Rollins’ address and mugshot are not available under Florida law because of her law enforcement affiliation.
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22 Responses to “Escambia Sheriff’s Office Crime Tech Arrested For Stealing Drugs”
No Brenda. Certain positions/careers are encircled by trust. A theft, in a law enforcement field, equates to no employment. It wasn’t a simple mistake, there is so much more to the complete story and certainly, if you knew the facts, you wouldn’t feel the way you do.
REGARDING:
“Everyone makes a bad decision at one time or another people who do a lot worse have gotten a second chance”
So you believe she should continue to be paid and allowed to handle drugs and critical evidence in criminal cases even if proven guilty?
Fascinating.
You don’t have to be perfect to see where that could create some problems.
David considering possible grounds for dismissal
of EVERY case she EVER touched
Everyone makes a bad decision at one time or another people who do a lot worse have gotten a second chance but I guess it’s different when there’s just this one person who’s ever made a mistake maybe she needs help instead of trashed out
Drugs money and/or fame….. Some folks will do ANYTHING for it……
@ Anne. She was fired,arrested,high bonded and still in jail. What more can be done Anne? Any suggestions?
Why are leftover narcotics drugs from deceased people even stored in an evidence room? No upcoming trial for the dead. They are being removed from deceased individuals’ houses to prevent home invasions by drug dealers, etc. Why hoard these unused supplies of pain killers, make them available to other terminal patients free of charge. .
@ anne
“Why can’t people appreciate having a good job anymore? Sounds like the dept needs to be policing their own too.”
This is exactly what happened. They discovered the misconduct and handled it themselves, then openly reported it to the public. Can’t ask for much more than that.
Really Anne? They obviously ARE policing their own. The found out about it, immediately interviewed and arrested her, and then fired her. What more could they do to police that situation?
REGARDING:
“Crime has gone down in Washington, and Colorado where decriminalization of certain drugs, and taxation has brought a windfall to those states. ”
“Though crime rates declined or remained static in most of the 30 largest U.S. cities last year, the rate of violent crime per 100,000 people spiked 3.4 percent in Colorado, driven by increases in homicides, rapes and violent assaults.”
Denver Post Jul 11, 2017
“The statewide murder rate is up more than 20-percent since 2014.”
http://www.cpr.org/news/story/a-dive-into-colorado-crime-data-in-5-charts
So they took in more money and it MAY not be related BUT violent crime in Colorado went up not down.
David for facts and understanding
REGARDING:
“Their name isn’t dragged through the mud and they get the help they need. Maybe the police should think about doing something along those lines as well.”
If this were done, everyone would rightly suspect a cover-up. Breaking the law is more dangerous for people charged with upholding it — and it should be.
David for reality
Why can’t people appreciate having a good job anymore? Sounds like the dept needs to be policing their own too.
It’s a shame. That a person can go through life to get an education to make a honorable good living and make kin folk proud..to end up involved in the drug deals in society, h arming themselves, kin folk and friends . Each day. I read so many times the deaths a and violence that goes along with it rise and ruse. The war on drugs will never be won..I pray that it ciuld. We are better than that.I pray that one day before I die I could see a sign of hope. So many lives affected.
It’s obvious she needs help, it’s bad that you steal someone’s narcotics but from the deceased? It’s sad but as I’ve read on another comment it happens more than we think. I’m sure it does. When you steal from the deceased you really hit an all time low. Pure awful.
I agree Heather & Lance
“Her illegal actions, breaking the public’s trust and being terminated should NULL and VOID law enforcement affiliation protection”.
None of that has been proven yet in a Court of Law by a Jury of her Peers. Secondly, she may very well of been instrumental in convicting criminals with violent histories who would not think twice about doing her harm. I’m not defending what she did but putting her in harms way is not “Justice”. Sounds like a far left approach: let’s try them in the media.
It seems some folks are not satisfied with a real job.
Not that I think her actions are ok because I don’t!! I think it’s horrible but I do feel like people have been very ugly with there comments. This happens in the medical field all the time and they don’t loose there license they are rehabilitated. Their name isn’t dragged through the mud and they get the help they need. Maybe the police should think about doing something along those lines as well. It’s definitely apparent that we have an opioid issue in this country!
Really, Grand Locust? Let’s just give in and allow dangerous drugs to be sold, “taxed and deregulated”? Almost 70,000 people per year die from overdose. You want to put even more drugs on the streets and mainstream their use? We haven’t stopped murder either by making it illegal. Why not decriminalize and tax murderers?
All dealers should be charged at the least with attempted murder. If an addict who bought from them dies, they should be charged as a murderer. The current problem seems to center around a focus on capturing and punishing addicts. Spend as much energy and resources on treating the addicted then aggressively identify and prosecute the sewer rats who profit from selling the poison. Anyone convicted of dealing a deadly narcotic should never freedom again.
This goes on a lot more right here in Escambia County.It can be very cigarettes Jewelry.you just don’t hear about it.
Her illegal actions, breaking the public’s trust and being terminated should NULL and VOID law enforcement affiliation protection – she is a common thief and drug peddler. Display her mugshot and publish her address, the neighbors need to know what is living amongst them – she has brought shame and dishonor to the ECSO by stealing and selling that poison.
Very sad story. Christine will be going to prison for a long time.
Double standard. Week after week we see non violent dopes and mopes mugshots, but when the corruption of prohibition whether alcohol or drugs is in effect, eventually your LEO gets corrupt wanting to get a piece of the action. Nobody talks about the gangs and their criminal enterprises paying off LEO. Serpico and police corruptions with the drug trade is not limited to NY. It historically has been anywhere where lots of money is being made on a criminal enterprise distributing alcohol or drugs. The drug war has failed. Now it is going to cause rot within if we do not decriminalize, tax, and regulate most of the illegal drug trade. Crime has gone down in Washington, and Colorado where decriminalization of certain drugs, and taxation has brought a windfall to those states. It is time to put corrupt cop’s mugshots in the paper, and it is time to end the drug war in all its failures.