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friendly page] Former Police Officer Sentenced for Trafficking Oxycontin FEB 4 -- LOUISVILLE, KY - Daniel Carr, age 33, of 2424 Addmore Lane, Clarksville, Indiana, was sentenced to 1 year and 1 day imprisonment, and Brenda Mudd, age 32, also of 2424 Addmore Lane in Clarksville, Indiana, was sentenced to 4 months imprisonment and 4 months home incarceration in United States District Court, Louisville, Kentucky, for drug trafficking. U.S. Attorney David L. Huber of the Western District of Kentucky announced today. Joseph H. McKinley, Jr., Judge, United States District Court, also sentenced Carr and Mudd to 3 years supervised release following incarceration. There is no parole in the federal judicial system. Carr pled guilty to the charges on September 4, 2007, and Mudd pled guilty on November 6, 2007. Carr acknowledged that from on or about January 2007 to on or about June 25, 2007, he conspired with others to knowingly and intentionally possess with the intent to distribute Oxycontin. Carr, who was an officer with the Lebanon Junction Police Department at the time the crimes were committed, was also charged with being an unlawful user of a controlled substance in possession of a firearm, to wit, Carr's Glock 9mm service pistol. Carr was previously an officer with the Audubon Park Police force for approximately seven years. On June 21, 2007, a cooperating source (“CS”) admitted to supplying quantities of Oxycontin pills, a Schedule II controlled substance, to Carr and Brenda Mudd. The CS also stated that Carr and Mudd utilized their cell phones to coordinate their meetings with the CS to purchase Oxycontin. The CS stated that he/she began supplying quantities of Oxycontin, 40-milligram pills, to Mudd from approximately January 2007 to the present for a price of $20 per pill. The CS estimates that he/she has sold a total of approximately 100 pills in increments of 5 to 10 pills at a time. Further, the CS indicated that Daniel Carr was present and participated during several of these Oxycontin transactions with Mudd. Specifically, the CS met with Carr and Mudd on June 16, 2007 and provided them with ten Oxycontin pills (40 milligrams each) for a price of $20 per pill. Then, on June 19, 2007, he/she met with Mudd and Carr at the Circle K Convenience Mart located on Third Street in Louisville and provided them with ten Oxycontin pills (40 milligrams each) again for $20 per pill. During this transaction, Carr informed the CS that 10 pills would not be enough because his “pending customer wanted to purchase a quantity of 20 pills”. On June 21, 2007, the CS recorded a telephone conversation between the CS and Ms. Mudd during which Mudd informed the CS that Carr “has money in his pocket, I need to get it and come to you”. On June 23, 2007, the CS received a text message from Carr’s cell phone asking “can we hook up? Brenda is sick, and I have people waiting on us. Call me if you can”. On June 25, 2007, law enforcement recorded a telephone call from Carr to the CS during which the CS informed Carr that he/she had 30 Oxycontin pills available and Carr stated “I need all 30 of them so that I can make the money back and pay you off.” Later, on June 25, 2007, after a series of recorded telephone calls between the CS and Carr to coordinate a sting, Mudd and Carr drove to an apartment complex parking lot in the vicinity of Preston Highway and Gene Snyder Highway in Louisville. During this meeting, they engaged in conversation about an increase in the dollar price per pill for future Oxycontin and the CS provided what defendants believed to be 30 Oxycontin pills (40 milligrams) to Carr. Carr admitted that he purchased what he believed to be Oxycontin pills for both personal use and further distribution to third parties. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Robert J. Kilmartin and it was investigated by the Louisville Metro Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration. ### |
