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Updated: 9:18 AM May 8, 2008
Durant police officer charged in burglary
DURANT, OK -- A Durant police officer is on the other side of the law. Lt. Johnny Rutherford was charged Tuesday with felony second degree burglary after months of an internal investigation. Posted: 5:36 PM May 7, 2008Reporter: Emi FitzGerald Email Address: emi.fitzgerald@kxii.com |
This photo is from surveillance video of the burglary back in November 2007 at Morrison Drug.
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DURANT, Okla. -- A Durant police officer is on the other side of the law. Lt. Johnny Rutherford was charged Tuesday with felony second degree burglary after months of an internal investigation.
Rutherford is accused of breaking into the Morrison Drug Store in Durant on November 27, 2007, to steal prescription pills. The crime was even caught on tape. According to OSBI investigators, Rutherford admitted it was him captured on surveillance video inside that pharmacy to OSBI investigators in February.
After admitting to braking into the pharmacy, Rutherford confessed to burglarizing attempting to burglarize the home of his brother-in-law on two separate occasions. Rutherford stated he did steal anything the time he was able to enter the house, because the drugs he sought were inside a locked box.
The Durant police officer is also charged with misdemeanor crimes of malicious injury for breaking into the pharmacy and damaging a restroom wall.
Soon after the investigation started, Rutherford took personal leave but now is on administrative leave.
Rutherford posted bond shortly after turning himself in to Chief Durward Cook at the Durant Police Department on Tuesday.
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