MACHIAS, Maine (AP) — The sheriff in Maine's easternmost county is crossing swords with the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency Director Roy McKinney.
Washington County Sheriff Donnie Smith is calling for McKinney's ouster. In an e-mail, he says McKinney has both covered up and allowed misconduct.
Asked about the e-mail, Smith told the Bangor Daily News that the MDEA is a "rogue agency." He cited several incidents including an agent's misuse of a stun gun, $3,000 in missing drug buy money and a video that surfaced showing an agent flash his badge, drink some beer and then drive away.
Maine Public Safety Commissioner Anne Jordan disagrees. She describes McKinney as "an incredibly well-respected and highly qualified MDEA director."
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Information from: Bangor Daily News, http://www.bangornews.com
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Maine Public Safety Commissioner Anne Jordan . . . describes McKinney as "an incredibly well-respected and highly qualified MDEA director."
Does this mean she thinks the claim that he is well respected is incredible?
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When a company gets themselves in a lot of trouble they change their name to avoid recognition and get a clean slate with customers who don't realize who they are doing business with. Interdepartmental Drug Enforcement did this a years ago when there was so much scandal they couldn't get away from it; they just changed their name to MDEA. The trouble with this practice is changing your name does not change you, as in a rose by any other name, or a stinking benjamin and whether you call them Interdartmental Drug Enforcement of MDEA they have stunk a very long time.
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