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Ex-sheriff accused in sex-meth case due in court today
Posted: Jan 31, 2012 6:10 AM by Summer Yu
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) - A former Arapahoe County sheriff accused of trading methamphetamine for sex is due in court.
Sixty-eight-year-old Patrick Sullivan is due in court today for a scheduling hearing. A preliminary hearing has been postponed where prosecutors were to present evidence supporting charges of possession of methamphetamine, distribution of methamphetamine, attempting to influence a public servant and solicitation of a prostitute.
A judge appointed the Colorado Attorney General's office as special prosecutor after prosecutors in the county where Sullivan was sheriff from 1984 until 2002 asked to withdraw.
The attorney general's office asked for at least 30 days to review the case.
From his November arrest until he was released on bond on Dec. 6, he was being held in a jail named for him.
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