A former Fair Bluff police officer is in jail after allegedly breaking the laws he was sworn to protect.
The arrest of Gregory "Butch" Campbell dates back to October, when a small town drug store was robbed twice.
Coincidentally, Campbell was the investigating officer who showed up to investigate both of the break-ins.
Drug store owner Jack Meares told WWAY something was unusual about the police officer investigating both break-ins. "The response and everything was totally different, the investigation process was totally different, the medications taken were totally different. This time it was all controlled drugs wherein the first time it was not."
On October 19th, someone smashed this window, and stole generic medications that police say had no street value. Two days later, after the window had been replaced, the pharmacy was broken-into again, this time nearly wiping out the store's supply of Percocets.
Officer Gregory "Butch" Campbell responded to both break-ins. Now, he is under arrest for the crimes, allegedly stealing hundreds of Percocets, worth five dollars a pill on the street.
Despite the thousands of dollars worth of pills missing from Meares' store, law enforcement officers say even more shocking is the fact one of their own is being blamed for breaking the laws he is expected to uphold.
"It’s really a scar on us as law enforcement. Because we are really held up to a higher standard,” said Chief Marty Lewis of the Fair Bluff P.D.
"Anytime that trust is broken, it's a slap in the face to all law enforcement,” added Captain David Nobles.
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Good job there Barney. You just tossed the 624 class hours in the trash. Enjoy your stay in the Hoke County FORMER Officer Hotel.
As a Law Enforcement officer
As a Law Enforcement officer currently serving the great people of the United States of America while stationed in Iraq, I have this to say; you have filled people’s hearts and life’s with the fear that our own brothers and sisters behind the badge are not to be trusted. So congratulations to you for adding further deception and dishonor to the badge that has had a hard knock life to begin with. You should be trialed by a jury of your peers which should have no problem finding you guilty. You should step up and plead guilty seeing how you didn’t do it once as a oh I didn’t know it bad to steal type of person since you obviously know the difference between right and wrong because you went through the same training that the rest of us have and you have had your yearly in-services so there’s no excuse. I pray for your family that will have to continue to carry the shame that you have instilled upon them and heaven forbid if you have children in school because we all know they will catch it for the other kid’s worst than you will. From the front lines to the headlines I ask that God has mercy on your soul.
Officer Gregory "Butch" Campbell
Go to Jail! Go directly to Jail!
Do not pass GO. Do not collect $200.
I'm a former police officer, and I'm ashamed
of what you did! How could you "sell" your
name and your families good name for such
little gain?
It's called...
...addiction.
ashame....
just look at what happened in Washington state; such a tragedy that four officers were shot down in cold blood just because they were police. Period.I'm glad Maurice Clemmons got what he deserved. At least the government won't have to spend thousands of dollars for appeals and feeding the animal plus health care and so on, etc. Even though they are in prison a lot of them live better in there than some law abiding folks do out here. I just hope that the police man that shot this beast doesn't get reprimanded for killing him. And now this in N.C. a police man stealing drugs.