February 11, 2016
By Paul Joseph, Paragon Communications News Director –
A Clinton man working for Clinton Police has been arrested by Clinton Police. The man was recruited by police to buy drugs, but he allegedly took advantage of police.
53-year-old Farron Dean Lake is in the Custer County Jail in Arapaho on a charge of distributing a controlled, dangerous substance and awaiting a court date.
A probable cause affidavit says Lake allegedly bought methamphetamine on January 12 in a motel room in the 2100 block of Gary Boulevard after being recruited by Clinton police to buy drugs from a suspected drug dealer. He allegedly bought the drugs, but instead of turning it all over to police – who’d provided him money for the drug purchase – smoked drugs during the buy and later gave some of the “buy” to a third man who’d helped him with the purchase.
The document says Lake had been specifically instructed prior to the purchase not to use or give away any of the meth he was going to buy.
After Lake had left the scene where he made the buy, two Clinton detectives picked him up at a prearranged location.
According to the affidavit, the next day, police reviewed a video of the transaction that showed Lake making the buy and then accepting a smoking pipe. The video allegedly shows Lake smoking the pipe with drugs in it. Lake also allegedly admitted to police that he “took a hit.”
The video also allegedly shows that once Lake left the motel room, he appeared to take a small amount of meth from the baggie he’d just bought and give it to another man.
During a later interview, the third man allegedly told detectives that Lake had, indeed, given him some of the meth while at the motel.
Lake’s in jail on a $10-thousand dollar bond and is scheduled for a preliminary hearing conference on February 26.
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