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This is all so reassuring, to see our public servents driving govt vehicles to ball games full of beer. Truly inspires confidence.
"Taking the day off to catch a Hogs game, an Arkansas narcotics agent who crashed his police vehicle — then ditched it, along with his guns, credentials and beer cooler — on a dirt road miles away from the ballgame.
Roy Bethell, a Group 6 Narcotics agent employed by Clark County and tasked with working on drug cases in a three-county area, found himself the target of another agency’s investigation in Northwest Arkansas when he left the scene of a car accident."
" The doors were left unlocked, giving police the go-ahead to check out the interior. A “strong odor of intoxicants” greeted Cpl. Robert Wingate when he opened the driver’s side door and found firearms, law enforcement equipment and police credentials. Among the credentials found in the vehicle was a Group 6 DTF (Drug Task Force) patch, which led Wingate to contact that agency’s director, Eddie Keathley.
Keathley confirmed the Group 6 vehicle was issued to Bethell and added that Bethell had taken off work that Friday to see the Arkansas Razorbacks play a baseball game at Baum-Walker Stadium.
At Keathley’s request the Washington County authorities secured the service weapons and had the vehicle towed. In addition to the service weapons inside the vehicle, the officers located an empty cooler, ice in the floorboard and one beer. After retrieving the weapons, officers left the beer and cooler inside, and had American Towing haul the vehicle away, at about 3:51 a.m."
" A dispatcher pinged Bethell’s phone and led police to a Super 8 hotel in Fayetteville, less than 2 miles from the stadium.Asked if he knew the whereabouts of his government-issued vehicle, Bethell reportedly told police he had left the game and that his phone GPS routed him to the area where the accident happened, on a dirt road roughly 17 miles from the stadium. Bethell further told police that he swerved to miss a deer but instead struck a tree. Bethell added that he had someone pick him up from where he left the wrecked vehicle. "
" At 7 p.m. Saturday, April 15, Wingate was back on duty and discovered the crash location roughly 1.5 miles from where he found Bethell’s abandoned vehicle. Wingate also found the missing headlight assembly and noted in his report that Bethell was likely “negotiating a slight left turn” when the accident happened. Wingate also documented unopened beer cans and a beer box “in the immediate area of the crash site.” The report further indicates that some items were tossed into a ravine, as Wingate noted he was unable to take close-up photos of some evidence due to the “steep, wooded hill” where he saw the beer box."
Hog Wild: Clark County drug agent crashes, ditches car when baseball trip turns foul -
A narcotics agent found himself the target of another agency’s investigation in Northwest Arkansas when he left the scene of a car accident.
arkadelphian.com
