Reply #4: TPM: Coke, Booze, Assault: Blackwater Contractors' Past Revealed In Murder Case

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Coke, Booze, Assault: Blackwater Contractors' Past Revealed In Murder Case
Justin Elliott | January 25, 2010, 6:35PM

The two former Blackwater contractors who were charged this month with murder for the shooting death of two Afghan men left the military with other-than-honorable discharges for behavior ranging from assault to going AWOL and testing positive for cocaine, according to service records that surfaced in bond hearings, the AP reports.

A judge in federal court in Virginia has ordered Christopher Drotleff and Justin Cannon held in custody; arraignment is scheduled for Wednesday. The judge called Drotleff "a danger to the community based on the nature of the charged offense, his history of alcohol abuse and criminal and military history which include crimes of violence."

It had been previously reported that Drotleff had been twice arrested for DUI in his home of Virginia Beach over the past 10 years. ... http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/records_of_blackwater_contractors_in_murder_case_c.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TPMmuckraker+%28TPMmuckraker%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo