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Ex-Trooper's Wife Testifies About Abuse, Drugs

Case Involves State Police Narcotics Unit

POSTED: 4:28 pm EDT May 6, 2005
UPDATED: 7:26 pm EDT May 6, 2005

In sometimes graphic detail, the ex-wife of a former state trooper accused who's of stealing drugs and abusing his spouse testified Friday about the couple's wild personal life.

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Former Sgt. Timothy White, 42, is accused of stealing up to 27 pounds of cocaine and other drugs while he was assigned to the Narcotics Inspection Unit in 2002 and 2003. He's also charged with attempted murder for allegedly holding his service pistol to his wife's head in January 2003 and cocaine trafficking, and marijuana and Ecstasy distribution.

White's ex-wife, Maura, testified in Norfolk Superior Court, giving her account of their life, which she said included episodes of heavy drinking and drug use.

Newscenter 5's Pam Cross reported that the mother of two said drug use destroyed their 11-year-marriage. Maura White took the witness stand, telling a story of drugs, sexual deviance and domestic abuse. She's a key witness against White.

In 2002, Maura White testified her husband brought cocaine to their Stoughton, Mass., home.

"What did you see in his possession?" she was asked by a state prosecutor.

"A state's evidence bag," she responded.

"What was inside that bag?"

"Cocaine," she testified.

"Describe the size of the cocaine that you observed," the prosecutor asked.

"Big chunks," Maura White testified.

She added later that White told her where he obtained it.

"He said that it came from the State Police bunker," White testified. "He said too bad that we didn't know anybody that could sell it."

Maura White said her husband surfed Internet sex sites, suggested sex threesomes and became abusive when she refused to participate.

"He threw me over the foot of the bed. And then came around to the side and he grabbed my ankles and he tossed me up in the air and he threw me on the floor," Maura White testified.

Tim White's defense attorneys have tried to say that it was Maura White who was involved with the drugs. She has been given immunity from prosecution in exchange for her testimony. She is expected back on the witness stand Monday.


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