World responds "no shit, one got caught"?
The Sheriff's Deputy Volunteer had prescription for 90 oxycodone pills a month for the last two years. He sold the extra ones he didn’t take himself.
Upon learning about Roberts’ drug activity, the sheriff’s office set up an undercover operation.
Judd said they set up a meeting with the suspect, and when they got to the location in Lake Wales, they found Roberts in a patrol car an his sheriff’s uniform with the pills.
“He wouldn’t be in it for long, but he’s in it now,” the sheriff said.
Deputies followed Roberts out of the parking lot and arrested him a different location.
Judd said Roberts signed a waiver allowing deputies to search his house, where they found marijuana and two guns.
After Roberts was arrested, they found he had a felony conviction from a burglary 50 years ago that was missed during the volunteer screening process.
Roberts worked for the sheriff’s office as volunteer sheriff’s service officer for 12 years. Volunteers like Roberts are tasked with helping sworn-in deputies with writing reports, handling paperwork on past-occurred crimes, and responding to minor injury traffic crashes, according to the sheriff’s office website.
He was charged with possession of a vehicle used to traffic drugs, possess of narcotic paraphernalia, possession of ammunition by a convicted felon, unlawful use of a 2-way communication device, possession of cannabis over 20 grams, trafficking in Oxycodone 25 grams or more, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
the Sheriff stated “I am hotter than a bare butt on tin roof in August,” Judd said. “That makes me so crazy that I want to pluck my eyeballs out one at a time.”
I like this Sheriff! He sounds like a farmer! Sheriff Grady Judd, Polk County Florida https://www.polksheriff.org/
Sheriff Judd began his career at the Polk County Sheriff ’s Office (Florida) in 1972 as a dispatcher. After transferring to the Patrol Division in 1974, he quickly progressed through the ranks – holding every rank from Sergeant to Colonel.
Polk County overwhelmingly elected Grady to serve as Sheriff in 2004. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy, the Senior Management Institute for Police, the FBI Law Enforcement Executive Development Seminar, and the FBI National Executive Institute.
He was a participant of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) Law Enforcement Exchange Program (LEEP).Sheriff Judd has taught as an adjunct professor at both the University of South Florida and Florida Southern College.
He is a Polk County School Board Hall of Fame inductee, a past recipient of Polk State College’s prestigious Distinguished Alumni Award, the 2008 Boy Scouts of America Distinguished Citizen Award, Protect Our Children Junny Award, the 2013 Callyo’s Leaders in Online Child Protection Award, as well as the 2013 Church Women United Human Rights Award.
He is a past President of the Florida Sheriffs Association and the Major County Sheriffs of America
Good for the sheriff to make this public and do what he needs to do to fix his department. And he definitely speaks his mind!
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