narcotic commander filmed counting cash from sale of drugs

[Liberal_in_LA]

Drug cop allegedly filmed counting cash from sale

(02-25) 14:11 PST CONCORD -- A state drug agent was caught on video counting money and laughing after he sold a pound of methamphetamine he had allegedly stolen from a law enforcement evidence locker, according to court documents filed by state investigators.

Norman Wielsch, 49, who led a multi-agency anti-narcotics team in Contra Costa County, was recorded on a video device worn by a confidential informant who acted as the middle man between Wielsch and a phony drug buyer, investigators said in an affidavit they filed to obtain a search warrant.

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Wielsch forged a "destruction order" to remove the drugs, investigators said. As a supervisor, Wielsch was authorized to destroy illicit drugs at a Martinez landfill.

Investigators watched as the two men drove in Butler's Hummer to the landfill. According to the documents, Wielsch and Butler allegedly kept the three pounds of methamphetamine and dropped three pounds of flour onto the ground.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/02/25/BAH61HV1EC.DTL#ixzz1F1Wm0ARy

[provis99]

1. I wonder if his police boss suspended him from his job.

The article doesn't say, so I doubt it.