Corrupt cop of the week

It's like I always say, you can't stop people from using drugs, not even the cops. Stephen Donnelly, a former Middlesex deputy sheriff who was also the Winthrop assistant harbormaster was jailed yesterday for allegedly running a cocaine business from his Winthrop apartment. Contrary to the usual press when law enforcement makes a haul of this size, although they admit he was a large volume dealer, they're not calling him a kingpin but but rather "a person who got involved with using drugs himself and dealing as well."

State police undercover officers began buying $100 packages from Donnelly in June, according to court documents. Police executed a search warrant at Donnelly's apartment at 91 Veterans Road and arrested him Friday. Among items seized were a crack pipe, numerous guns, a hypodermic syringe, various prescription pills and collection of sadomasochistic pornography and paraphernalia.

I wonder what they would be calling him if he was a poor black man.