NEW: Watson Tests Positive for Marijuana, Cocaine
Friday, June 03, 2011
Watson had been stopped by an East Haven police officer on Route 80. At the time, he was charged with DUI, although a breath test at the scene placed Watson's blood alcohol content at 0.05 percent (the legal limit in CT is 0.08 percent).
The results of a voluntary urine test showing Watson's blood alcohol was 0.07 were released in late May, according to police.
Today, according to Deputy Chief John Mannion, a narcotics screen on that urine sample revealed the presence of cocaine and THC, a chemical compound in marijuana.
The exact amount of these substances in Watson's urine was not released by the Connecticut Toxicological Lab in Hartford, CT, to the East Haven Police. "There is no percentage or ratio or amount for these drugs," according to the East Haven Police Department. "They are illegal to possess and therefore if they are in your system, you are 'Under the Influence of Drugs.'"
"It validates the arrest for driving under the influence because he is under the influence of narcotics," said Deputy Chief Mannion. "This also validates his possession of marijuana, which he admitted."
Watson's assertion that the marijuana was of a medical nature brought this comment from Mannion: "That's nonsense for us."
Watson is due to be arraigned Tuesday in New Haven Superior Court.
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Comments:
guy smily
7:55pm on Friday, June 03, 2011
VERY VERY VERY SELFISH MOVE ON YOUR PART TO NOT DO THE RIGHT THING AND STEP DOWN, and spare your party the ridicule. Another politician who just doesn't get it.
Todd B
11:41pm on Friday, June 03, 2011
But it was medicinal cocaine, right?
Typical Resident
9:19am on Saturday, June 04, 2011
The cocaine helps his chronic back pain, duh.
Nick Patriarca
10:31am on Saturday, June 04, 2011
alcohol, marijuana , cocoaine . not a good combination of drug use . publicly lying
concerning this usage , just another member of the general assembly that has been
caught doing the wrong think and refusing to be accountable.
Duncan Wallace
1:17pm on Saturday, June 04, 2011
Just turn this guy over to the potheads. We'll teach him a lesson he won't forget.
PS let's not forget that cocaine is a perfectly legal prescription drug. We don't deny someone who, in the judgment of his doctor, needs cocaine in the course of treatment, and it's absurd that Know Nothing prohibitionists and hack politicians promoting a self serving political agenda make decisions that rightfully belong to licensed physicians and accredited scientists.
Michael Trenn
5:15pm on Saturday, June 04, 2011
Too bad this sort of scrutiny was not exercised on Patrick Kennedy. He got chance after chance from the media in this state, who all but ignored his escapades. By rights, he should have been out after the airport incident, where he assaulted the elderly woman who was doing her job. Senior Citizens: there is a higher likelihood that you will be beat up by a Democrat Congressman than there is that the Congressman's claims about the Republicans taking away Social Security are true. The Congressman beatdown happened once, where the other has not happened at all.
Ned Rivers
1:03am on Sunday, June 05, 2011
To my knowledge, Patrick Kennedy never lied about his use.