Whipped Cream Difficulties

…I think this is kind of interesting.

A guy named Charley Armendariz used to be a deputy with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. (That’s Joe Arpaio’s outfit, if you don’t recognize it.)

Deputy Armendariz’s life seems to have gone sadly downhill. He engaged in what is described as “a series of standoffs with law enforcement in the last week”, and apparently killed himself; deputies serving an arrest warrant found him dead on Thursday.

But that’s not the interesting part. When they searched his home:

Officials found license plates from unknown vehicles, “hundreds” of drivers’ licenses, ID cards, passports, airport security clearance cards, empty wallets and wallets filled with personal belongings, in addition to various illegal drugs and drug paraphernalia, according to court records.

And they found many of these things stored in MCSO evidence bags.

Detectives located more incriminating evidence in Armendariz’s office, including citations that had been written and torn up, and citations where the court and complaint copies had never been turned in, according to the affidavit.

The Arizona Republic report says that this appears to go as far back as seven years. And it is possible this will result in the dismissal of any criminal cases Armendariz was involved with as a deputy.

It’s just…bizarre, in addition to being sad. The only thing I can think of is that meth is a hell of a drug.

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