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Sean Sutton, Oklahoma State Coach, Arrested on Drug Complaints
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by Blaine Metzgar | February 12, 2010 at 03:22 pm
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Sean Sutton, former Oklahoma State University Basketball coach, was arrested on a drug complaint Thursday night in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Sutton has been in contact with drug agents since August 2009 after agents received a tip that that Sutton was going across state borders to multiple doctors to illegally acquire painkillers.
Sutton was detained sometime around 5 p.m. after hutton went out of state to pick up a parcel of painkillers from a local shipping company, according to Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics spokesman Mark Woodward.
Woodward stated that Sutton admitted to drug agents that he is addicted to painkillers after the agency intercepted the shipment. In August 2009 agents received a tip that the former OSU coach had been illegally buying painkillers from dealers in Seattle and Brooklyn.
Sutton dodged drug charges in August when he enrolled in a rehabilitation program for his painkiller addiction. After Sutton lost touch with agents last month he began to have withdrawls.
The Payne County District Attorney, Robert Hudson, confirmed he will be filing four felony charges against Sutton for Thursday's out-of-state pickup as well as for using his cell phone to commit a felony.
Hudson stated that Sutton is expected to post his $10,000 bond today and then immediately
enter rehab, where he will remain until his arraignment.
OSU issued a statement saying, "we are saddened by this news and our thoughts are with Sean and his family."
Sutton replaced his father , legendary Oklahoma State basketball coach, Eddie Sutton in 2006 when his father retired after he slipped back into alcoholism. He was fired in 2008 over his two unsuccessful seasons as OSU's basketball coach.
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at 05:43 on February 13th, 2010
I don't know Sean or the Sutton family, however, I sincerely hope this doesn't come as a shock to anyone. Prescription pills have now displaced Marijuana as the drug of "first use" among teens and adolescents, and at least 12 Million people have admitted to taking a prescription strength narcotic for reasons other than medical. Add to that the many states with a proliferation of "Pain Clinics" (medication dispensed on site, cash only please), and we're at the very beginning of an epidemic that has the power to take out an entire generation. Just a few years ago, new drugs, Suboxone and Subutex were introduced as "Miracle Drugs" because of their ability to get people off of opiates virtually pain-free.As it turns out, like Metgadone, the answer is sometimes a lot harder than the question-people are now abusing Suboxone in record numbers, and dying from overdoses of Methadone. Across the globe, heroin is wreaking havoc all across Russia and in Mesxico we are witnessing the first Narco-Government. Until the profit motive is removed from drugs, and until such a time that Prison Guards have maybe even a little less power than Teachers, the destruction of families (of all races and ecomomic backgrounds) and the killings, both accidental as in overdoses and murders by drug gangs, will simply continue to grow...along with the power of the Guards and the Gangs.. JJH