Pubdate: Wed, 03 Dec 2014
Source: Northern Advocate (New Zealand)
Copyright: 2014 Northern Advocate
Contact:  http://www.northernadvocate.co.nz
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2929
Author: Kristen Edge
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?236 (Corruption - Outside U.S.)

FORMER COP MIKE BLOWERS SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS IN JAIL

A former police detective who admitted to supplying drugs has been 
sentenced to almost five years in prison.

In the High Court at Whangarei this morning, Mike Blowers was 
sentenced to four years and nine months for supplying meth and two 
years and three months for theft of drugs, to be served concurrently. 
He was discharged on charge of supplying cannabis.

The former Detective Sergeant, who's 51, pleaded guilty in October to 
supplying methamphetamine, and stealing methamphetamine from a police 
exhibit room. The charges date to a period between June 2011 and June 2012.

Blowers changed his plea to guilty two days into a jury trial which 
had been set down for two weeks.

The veteran officer had 20 years' experience on the job, with 
particular expertise in battling the drug trade. He was the officer 
in charge of the Northland Organised Crime Unit which carried out 
raids against drug manufacturers and suppliers.

He resigned two weeks before his arrest in April last year.
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