Cop in court over drug and data charges

Mar 4 2010 by Hywel Trewyn, North Wales Weekly News

Cop in court over drug and data charges

A DETECTIVE was accused of trying to deal an illegal bodybuilding drug.

DC Vaughn Roberts is also accused of leaking someone’s personal details from a police computer.

The 31-year-old from Rhos-on-Sea is suspended from his job in Bangor. He denied all charges at Caernarfon Crown Court last week.

DC Roberts, of Cysgod y Bryn, was led to the dock where two indictments were read out by court clerk Mark Whiteley.

The details of the first were that on November 26 2008, Roberts offered to supply a quantity of the Class C drug Clenbuterol to another person in contravention to the Drugs Act.

Clenbuterol, or Clen as it is known, is designed to be used by vets for treating horses for asthma, and was once prescribed to human asthma sufferers as a decongestant.

But it is illegally used by bodybuilders and steroid users who want to build muscle and reduce body fat.

The other indictment against DC Roberts had two counts. Firstly, obtaining personal data from a police computer on May 8 2009 without the consent of the controller of data – the chief constable of North Wales Police – and doing that “knowingly or recklessly”.

The second alleged he’d disclosed that personal data on the same date.

Roberts pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Judge Merfyn Hughes told Roberts: “This matter will be back on the list for a further hearing on March 19.”