Former Cat Sean Sutton Arrested

Sean Sutton arrested on drug complaints



By BILL HAISTEN World Sports Writer
Published: 2/12/2010 11:13 AM
Last Modified: 2/12/2010 11:36 AM

Former Oklahoma State basketball coach Sean Sutton was arrested by Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics agents on Thursday in Stillwater on complaints of attempting to possess controlled dangerous substances, officials said.

OBNDD spokesman Mark Woodward said Sutton remained jailed this morning. It was not certain when Sutton might be arraigned in court.

Woodward said he expects charges to be filed today.

In addition to the controlled substance charge, Woodward said a charge of using a communication device, a cell phone, to commit a felony would also be filed.

Woodward said Sutton has admitted to OBNDD agents that he is addicted to painkillers. Woodward said drugs were obtained from several doctors by fraudulent means, and through shipments from the states of Washington and New York.

A shipment that arrived in Stillwater on Thursday was intercepted and found to contain Adderall and Clonazepam, Woodward said.

"When Sean Sutton arrived to pick it up, our agents confronted him again," Woodward said.

"He confessed and said he was ordering medications to support his addiction. We interviewed him throughout the evening, and then late last night transported him to the Stillwater jail and he was booked for attempting to possess (controlled dangerous substances) and use of a communications device to facilitate a felony."

"We have authorities in the state of Washington and New York assisting us with this," Woodward said. "(Sutton) may face an additional charge or charges of obtaining (drugs) by fraud dating back to those August multiple visits ... to doctors, and failing to disclose to those doctors that he was seeing other physicians."

Read more from this Tulsa World article at http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/OSU/article.aspx?subjectid=93&articleid=20100212_93_0_Former887568

Well that sucks for him. Guess his old man being an alcoholic isn't such a big deal anymore.

Oh those fun loving Suttons.