Crime & Safety
Carlsbad Police Officer Pleads Guilty to Stealing Heroin
Veteran officer Michael C. Koch, 44, will be sentenced June 20.
Micheal Koch, a police detective with pleaded guilty Thursday to a felony charge of second-degree burglary for stealing heroin from the department's property impound room.
Koch, 44, will be sentenced – probably to probation – on June 20 at the Vista Courthouse.
A statement released by the Carlsbad Police Department after Koch's said "numerous" police employees witnessed the thefts. Police Chief Gary Morrison expressed "tremendous disappointment" and placed Koch on paid administrative leave.
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The defendant had been with the Carlsbad Police Department for 18 years.
–City News Service
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