quote:Originally posted by Kat660:
Also makes you wonder who the pharmacists are who are reporting all these purchases. Seems kind of ironic that we have pharmacists who can get out of huge drug charges by buying a car for the drug task force and then turn around and finger little guys buying cold medicine who might be completely innocent but don't have the money to pay anyone off and have to actually work through the system.
A few things here:
First, it's not always the pharmacists calling to report anything. Pseudoephedrine logs are at any place that sells any item containing pseudoephedrine and is available to any law enforcement officer at any time. Several local Law Enforcemnet Agencies check these regularly.
Second, about this particular pharmacist you've mentioned...I know nothing of this case but I do know that in the medical profession (even for pharmacists and pharmacy techs) that if you get in trouble for Using, Stealing and yes even Selling narcotic pills (even if they came from the pharmacy) that they offer you treatment on a first offense and sometimes on a second offense. So if the court sees that a drug dealing pharmacist is in treatment, normally the case gets dropped or the pharmacist receives some type of probation and gets to keep his license as long as he completes treament.
Third, not that this is the way it happened in the case you're speaking of, but Criminal Cases and Civil Cases do not go hand-in-hand. I know that's your point here, that what Scogins did was unlawful but that's not always the actual case even though that's the way it appeared. In other words, I can be a pharmacist driving home after work and have 50,000 narcotic pills in my 2009 Navigator, stop at store and sell a few pills in the parking lot, drive on down the road and get pulled over and told that I'm under arrest for distribution and possesion, then receive probation because I'm in treatment, retain my license to practice, get another job at a pharmacy, out walking around and working like I'm free and clear to the genearl public and still loose my 2009 Navigator to the Drug Task Force in a Civil Hearing.
Just wanted to make that clear. If in fact Scogins took the SUV on behalf of the Task Force as a donation from the pharmacist before any type of Criminal or Civil Hearing and did away with the case, then yes that would be illegal. And he may have, I'm not arguing that point. I just wanted to clear up that people can not serve the first day in jail for a felony and still loose their property to Law Enforcement.