A week after his retirement..a police officer sells drugs to school students
A retired police officer arrested for drug trafficking less than a week after retiring from the Calais Police Department is awaiting sentencing on more than a dozen criminal charges.
Jeffrey Bishop, 55, pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and preparation, drug theft and multiple counts of receiving stolen property.
Bishop was arrested, after he was seen selling drugs to a 17-year-old girl in a high school parking lot in Harrington.
The drugs, which were inside a bottle, contained 27 acetaminophen and hydrocodone tablets and three sachets of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 100 times stronger than heroin, police said, according to the Slate Report.
When the police executed a search warrant at his home a few days later, they found and seized 15 guns that had been reported stolen in Hancock and Washington counties over the past four years, as well as pistols stolen from police stations. Bishop worked for nearly 25 years as a police officer in a large number of police stations .
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