Airman pleads guilty to distributing drug

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Airman pleads guilty to distributing drug
By Franklin Fisher, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Friday, October 12, 2007

OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea — An Air Force police officer pleaded guilty Wednesday to distributing Percocet by giving it to fellow airmen, but denied abusing the drug herself.

Airman Shannon L. Sigsbury of the 51st Security Forces Squadron is one of nine police from the squadron caught in an Air Force investigation of alleged Percocet abuse at Osan. She’s the third of the nine to stand trial. A fourth airman is set for trial on Friday.

The nine did not comprise an organized drug ring, base officials have said.

Sigsbury’s alleged misconduct occurred between March and May.

On Wednesday, she testified she was prescribed Percocet at Osan’s base hospital after surgery, and later gave some of her pills to several fellow airmen who used them to get high.

She also admitted joining with airmen in snorting Percocet — inhaling it through the nostrils in a crushed, powdered form — but contended her use was not illegal because the drug was prescribed to her and she was taking it only to relieve pain.


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