Sunrise Beach police officer fired after being charged with drug possession
Ryan Shiner
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A now-former Sunrise Beach police officer was charged with two felonies after authorities allegedly found him with methamphetamine.
Pete Gilbert Ray Fox, 52, of Versailles, was charged on Wednesday in Camden County with two counts of drug possession. A court date has not been set. He is being held at the Camden County Jail.
The Sunrise Beach Police Department issued a press release on its social media on Wednesday indicating that it had fired an officer after it was told an arrest was made by the Camden County Sheriff’s Office. The release does not name Fox. A press release from the Camden County Sheriff’s Office later named Fox as an officer at SBPD.
The probable cause statement says deputies conducted a traffic stop on Route MM near Via Del Lago Drive in unincorporated Sunrise Beach around 5:15 p.m. Tuesday. The Dodge Ram 1500 was stopped because it did not have a rear bumper, the statement says.
Court documents identify Fox as being actively employed with a local law enforcement agency. Fox allegedly told the deputy that he and a passenger were coming back from Columbia so he could go to work, and gave the answer without being questioned, the statement says.
The deputy saw a cellophane wrapper from a cigarette pack that contained pills, court documents say. Fox allegedly told the deputy that he helped a friend move a couch in Columbia, but did not know their name. The deputy wrote that answer was odd, considering that he is a law enforcement officer.
Fox allegedly owned the vehicle for two months but did not have plates that belonged to him, the statement says. He allegedly denied having drugs before eventually admitting there was meth in the truck, the statement says.
The deputy found about 4 grams of meth, as well as other drug paraphernalia and more pills that tested positive for meth, the statement says.
His girlfriend, Candelaria Stacy, 45, of Sunrise Beach, was in the truck with him and was also charged with two counts of drug possession. She was brought to the jail.