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Posted: 8:03 PM Oct 6, 2008
Former Sheriff's Deputy Gets Prison Time For Drug and Weapon Charges
A former Sheriff's Deputy must serve 18 months in prison for drug-dealing and weapons offenses.
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A former Sheriff's Deputy must serve 18 months in prison for drug-dealing and weapons offenses.
The Charlotte Observer reported that a U.S. District Court judge in Charlotte sentenced 36-year-old Louis Balducci of Waxhaw on Monday. Balducci had pleaded guilty in April to two counts of selling the prescription painkiller Oxycodone and unlawful possession of silencers.
Balducci was a deputy from July 2006 until January 2008. He was on medical leave after he was injured in a car wreck in spring 2007.
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Posted by: Talon
Location: NC
on Oct 7, 2008 at 10:22 PM
For the third time, I'll try to post this. WITN, why report such a menial little story, just because the offender was a FORMER law enforcement officer. Again, I ask, do you research other offenders to see if they were ever employed as reporters? Why this double standard? It is obvious to me that you have a bias against law enforcement. WITN is an affiliate of NBC and even has a link to the infamously slanted and left wing controlled MSNBC. Your refusal to post my comments are extremely hippocritical. You posted an insulting and derogatory comment from DK, yet you refuse to post my reasonable comments which were NOT flaming . Your double standards are evident to me. Recently you had a story which concentrated on whether or not an officer violated policy when a suspect escaped from him. Why not report his initiative and hard work in developing a robbery case against a trespass offender? Why not report the national story of the officer who saved a woman from a burning vehicle?
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Posted by: Citizen
Location: North Carolina
on Oct 7, 2008 at 01:19 PM
WITN, I guess you can clearly see that it's a no win situation with some people. Regardless of what you do some people are never satisfied. So you continue to make the decisions on how you feel about the stories that you are reporting. If they don't like it, they're not obligated to read them. WITN, keep up the good work!
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Posted by: Chris
Location: Greenville
on Oct 7, 2008 at 10:15 AM
So it is safe to say that for a WHOLE year he was a Deputy Sheriff? I am not saying that he was a saint by no means but I have to agree with all of the other posters and ask WHY was his "former" profession even brought up? Was he accused of selling drugs while working? I could see the relevance then! I can already see that WITN leans more to the liberal side of things instead of using some common sense! Another black eye for Law Enforcement Officers across the state when there is no DIRECT relation with this guy's crimes and being a LEO..way to go guys.
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