{"id":5750,"date":"2026-10-08T08:26:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/former-police-chief-pleads-guilty-to-cocaine-sales\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T08:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:26:07","slug":"former-police-chief-pleads-guilty-to-cocaine-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/former-police-chief-pleads-guilty-to-cocaine-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Police Chief Pleads Guilty to Cocaine Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FPIEzThMxVhU%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=858&#038;video_height=483)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Former police chief pleads guilty to selling cocaine\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PIEzThMxVhU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> ARNOLD, PA \u2013 October 8, 2026 (STL.News) A former Pennsylvania police chief has pleaded guilty to five criminal charges involving cocaine sales and the theft of a firearm from his former police department\u2019s evidence room, bringing a significant development in a case that has raised questions about law-enforcement accountability and the handling of criminal evidence. Eric David Doutt, a former chief of the Arnold Police Department in Westmoreland County, entered his guilty plea Wednesday, Oct. 7, according to Pittsburgh television station WTAE. The case involved cocaine transactions investigated by the Pennsylvania Attorney General\u2019s Office and an AR-style rifle<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/former-police-chief-pleads-guilty-to-cocaine-sales\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARNOLD, PA \u2013 October 8, 2026 (STL.News) A former Pennsylvania police chief has pleaded guilty to five criminal charges involving cocaine sales and the theft of a firearm from his former police department\u2019s evidence room, bringing a significant development in&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5752,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750\/revisions\/5752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}