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Allegedly Abusive Trooper's Former Co-Workers Testify

Defense Say Wife Was Addicted To Drugs

POSTED: 5:22 pm EDT May 5, 2005
UPDATED: 8:01 pm EDT May 5, 2005

Jurors in the case of the former state trooper accused of abusing his wife and stealing drugs from a police evidence room heard more about his professional life Thursday.

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NewsCenter 5's Jack Harper reported that Massachusetts State Police Sgt. Tim White's supervisors and former co-workers took the stand Thursday.

Jurors heard a 911 call from White's wife, Maura, who told the dispatcher her husband had attacked her.

"My husband stuck a gun in my mouth," she told a dispatcher.

The defense said everything in the call is a lie.

"You will heard evidence from the witness stand that the main players in this drug trafficking scheme were all friends before they ever met Tim White. The only connection he had to them was his drug-addicted wife," defense attorney Robert George told the court Wednesday.

Lt. Michael Kelley, White's former boss in the State Police Narcotics Unit, said an inventory check confirmed drugs were missing.

"I made the determination that there were (drugs from) three separate cases that were supposed to be stored at the bunker that were not there," he said.

Prosecutors said White stole and resold hundreds of thousands of dollars in drugs.

The defense is trying to show that when he took the drugs home to store them, his wife stole them from him.

Maura White will take the stand Friday.


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