Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Former WA state employee pleads guilty to drug dealing

A former manager for the state Department of Labor and Industries faces more than three years in prison after pleading guilty to selling prescription drugs to a 16-year-old girl.

OLYMPIA, Wash. —

A former manager for the state Department of Labor and Industries faces more than three years in prison after pleading guilty to selling prescription drugs to a 16-year-old girl.

The 41-year-old man, James Loren Sanford, had enlisted his daughter's friend in a scheme to sell his pain medication at school and split the profit.

That girl's father blames Sanford for getting her hooked on OxyContin. She's now in rehab.

Sanford made a deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty Tuesday in Olympia to five counts of distribution of a controlled substance to a person under 18 and to one count of involving a person under 18 in an unlawful controlled substance transaction.

He was fired in March.

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Information from: The Olympian, http://www.theolympian.com

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