Police Chief Sentenced to 3 Years for Selling Drugs

Like lady mayors, we didn't used to have lady police chiefs when I was a kid.  So it's good to see we can do this job just as badly as men, too.

Chief Tressa Beltran of Hartford, Michigan, was busted in a sting operation. 

From CBS News:

"Tressa Beltran, 57, is charged with delivery or possession with intent to deliver less than 50 grams of a controlled substance, extortion, embezzlement by a public official over $50 in value, misconduct in office, larceny in a building, possession of less than 25 grams of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance, and possession of a Schedule 5 controlled substance."

The sheriff's office investigated Beltran after receiving a tip about her selling drugs.  They set up a drug drop box to see if she would take anything.  She took the bait and resold it, and now here we are.

All she got was 3 years.  Think about that.  She'd been selling drugs out of her patrol car as the chief of police, for long enough that word got around to the sheriff.  Then when they set up a sting, she actually stole the drugs they left, sifted through them, and resold anything worth selling.  Wow, man.  Who knows what else she was up to?  And all she got was 3 years?

But at least she can't be a cop anymore.

Bye, Felicia.