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For years, he served as a highly decorated law enforcement officer. President Clinton appointed him to the National Commission on Crime Prevention and Control in 1995 and he was honored as Sheriff of the Year in 2001. A jail in Colorado was even named after him!
But when former sheriff Pat Sullivan broke the law, he was sent to the very prison that bore his name!
From 1984 to 2002, Sheriff Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. made headlines by making bad guys pay for their crimes. In the world of law enforcers, he was nothing short of a national figure.
But all that changed in November of 2011 when the retired sheriff was arrested on the suspicion of trafficking methamphetamines into the same Colorado community he once kept safe. The full investigation painted an even grimmer picture: Sullivan was trading the drugs for sexual favors and had even posted bond for suspects arrested on other drug charges.
In an incredibly ironic twist of fate, Sullivan was detained at The Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. Detention Facility…the jail that was named in his honor.
Everyone involved in the sad event was shocked and grieved. “The allegations of criminal behavior involving Pat Sullivan are extraordinarily disturbing,” said Grayson Robinson, Arapahoe County’s current sheriff. He said it proved that, “No one, and particularly a former peace officer, is above the law.”
True.
Throughout the Bible, righteous leaders denounced hypocrisy in every form. They did so because they knew the high price paid for a lack of integrity. In Sullivan’s case, the truth of Proverbs 28:18 was proved again:
Whoever walks in integrity will be delivered, but he who is crooked in his ways will suddenly fall.
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Addiction
Busted
Character
Criminal
Drugs
Exposed
Guilty
Hypocrisy
Integrity
Justice
Law
Police
Prison
Proverbs
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