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On January 11th 2005, 11 days into his second term of office as D.A., Richard James (Rick) Roach was arrested in the courtroom at docket call by agents of the FBI and DEA on charges of possession of more than one ounce each of methamphetamine and cocaine, along with various other federal and state charges. On February 7th 2005 Roach resigned from office. On March 12th 2005, Roach's assistant D.A. Lynn Switzer was named by Governor Rick Perry to replace Roach. On June 1st 2005 Roach pled guilty to being a drug addict in possession of firearms and was sentenced to 5 years in federal prison. In the meantime on May 17th 2005 Roach was indicted on first degree felony state charges of possession of methamphetamine and separately for possession of cocaine, both charges with intent to distribute, within 1000 feet of a school zone. If convicted Roach will spend the rest of his life in prison. On June 21st Roach was indicted for the additional charge of aggravated perjury for lying about his financial status in a sworn affidavit requesting appointment of counsel. This charge carries an additional 10 years if Roach is convicted.
During the investigation and at the sentencing hearing, it was revealed that Roach:
1. Tried to bribe DPS officers by offering them cash and Rolex watches if they would make more drug and/or money seizures off Interstate 40;
2. Asked DPS officers to wear their state uniforms and work for Roach in their off time;
3. Routinely offered to dismiss drug cases against defendants if they would not contest the seizures and let Roach keep their drugs and money or:
4. Offer to return a portion of cash seizures if the defendant would not contest the seizure and let Roach keep the rest;
5. Deposited over 3 million dollars into the County's Drug Forfeiture Fund, would not allow other office members to access the accounts or information pertaining to the accounts and:
6. In 2003 the Amarillo offices of DEA and FBI began receiving information which indicated Roach was embezzling funds from drug forfeiture seizures made by area law enforcement agencies;
7. Possessed over 35 illegal weapons in his home and office, including two loaded pistols in his briefcase at the time of his arrest;
8. Possessed child pornography (both male and female) on his home and office computers;
9. Kept a cache of methamphetamine, cocaine, marijuana and syringes in the communal employee toilet at his D.A. Office in the courthouse;
10. Injected his sexual organ with methamphetamine and levitra, tried to get his office personnel to have sex with him and made sexual references to their children - a boy aged 15 and a girl aged 13;
11. Was witnessed by his secretary injecting methamphetamine on at least two occasions, once at his office and again at a private apartment rented by the D.A.'s office and used by Roach after he left his wife. The latter was recorded on hidden camera installed by the FBI where Roach was seen injecting a substance into his arm and telling his secretary it was methamphetamine he was injecting. At the office Roach's secretary walked in on him as he was removing methamphetamine, a spoon and a syringe from his office drawer, preparing to use them;
12. Roach then kept the shades to the office drawn, kept the door locked during business hours and kept the office phone hooked up to an answering machine, in order to screen calls before he decided whether he would let anyone answer it live (keep in mind the office of the D.A. is a public office which is supposed to be accessible to the public during all regular business hours);
13. Roach was given to wild mood swings, had an ungovernable temper, had marked weight loss, a sallow complexion, mental confusion, was often caught sitting in court repeating every word spoken by opposing counsel - to the degree that the Judge had to scold him over it - and was often jittery, disheveled and unable to speak coherently in complete thoughts;
14. Was caught by his wife smoking crack cocaine in the barn behind his house on at least two occasions;
15. Was caught with a sinus spray bottle which bore traces of cocaine. This is a common ploy utilized by drug addicted attorneys who want to use drugs in open court but, in a plausible manner. The effects of cocaine are short lived at 10-15 minutes per snort.
16. That Roach used a court order to check out of the DPS drug lab 2 lbs of methamphetamine, a pound of cocaine and ecstasy, which he claimed was to be used for training a drug dog but to date has ever been returned nor located, indicating Roach used and sold the drugs. State drug dog handlers say that such huge amounts of drugs re never used in training the dogs.
One should take careful note of the similarities of these allegations to those made against Harold Comer when he was D.A. Comer too was caught for personal use of drug seizure funds (embezzlement and misappropriation) and being a drug user in 1992; he was forced to resign as D.A. and took a plea bargain. Comer was ordered to pay restitution for the $10,000 the stole and to pay off his debt to the IRS for tax evasion, as well as to pay $2,000 of a judgment against 5 counties of the 31st District won by the D.A.'s investigator Mike Hartsock I in a "whistleblower" lawsuit he filed because Comer fired him in retaliation for his reporting of Comer's criminal misconduct. Right down to the nasal spray bottle, these are the illegal "perks" of being a D.A. in Gray County, Texas. If a D.A. is corrupt like Comer, Mann, Roach and Switzer and, if that D.A. wants them, as Comer and Roach obviously did. In the 31st Judicial District's criminalized politics one hand always washes the other.
If you want to read the Roach new stories for yourself, click on the appropriate stories listed below:
January 11th, 2005 - Feds Arrest DA On Meth Charge - The Pampa News
January 13th, 2005 - Panhandle Prosecutor Charged With Drugs And Weapons Possession - Lubbock Avalanche Journal
January 19, 2005 - Sordid Tale Unfolds in Affidavits - Pampa News
January 28, 2005 - Cache of drugs, guns found in search of DA's Residence, office
February 8th, 2005 - Roach resigns, pleads guilty in deal - Amarillo Globe News
February 12th, 2005 - A D.A. toppled by meth - Dallas Morning News
February 15th, 2005 - TX: a zealous prosecutor of drug criminals becomes one himself - The NewYork Times
March 16th, 2005 - Former D.A. rails against drugs, then is part of scourge he tried to eradicate - Pampa News/A.P.
April 30th, 2005 - Firm to audit DA office Accounts at Switzer's request - Pampa News
April 2005 - I inject, your Honor
June 1st, 2005 - Roach Gets Five years - Pampa News
June 2, 2005 - Roach gets five years - Amarillo Globe News
June 2nd, 2005 - What's Impropriety? - Pampa News
June 3rd, 2005 - Witnesses testify at Roach hearing - Pampa News
June 22nd, 2005 - Former D.A. faces perjury charges - Pampa News
October 8th, 2005 - Pretrial motions for Roach to be heard Oct 20, 21 - Pampa News
One day you're a Republican prosecutor in West Texas, ruining people's lives with reckless abandon and loving every minute of it; the next you're having your own life ripped to shreds just because you have a meth addiction, shoot up in front of staff members and will do the general bidding of anyone who asks and may also indicate that a "political favor" should be carried out in exchange for continued silence concerning your drug-related activities. So it goes with former prosecutor Richard James Roach.
Illegal drug use, pornography on a work computer, 2 pounds of missing methamphetamine, and a syringe found floating in a staff-only courthouse toilet - all of that and more came forth as part of the developing case against 31st District Attorney Rick Roach of Pampa, Texas.
Roach has been in custody since he was arrested at the Gray County Courthouse after entering a courtroom for docket call. At the time of his arrest, the affidavits for search warrants were sealed, but allegations of drug use came out in a suit filed to remove him from office.
The unsealed documents provided more information about Roach's alleged drug abuse.
According to court records:
Roach told one person that he used methamphetamine to "enhance his sexual experience" and had become a regular user after trying it several months earlier.
Several witnesses cited signs that Roach had been using drugs, including extreme mood swings, inability to sit still, unexplained absences from work, substantial weight loss and extreme paranoia.
Witnesses believe Roach was taking drugs from evidence or getting them from defendants or local suppliers.
Roach viewed pornography on his office computer, including images of 15- or 16-year-old girls, and expressed his desire to produce his own pornography.
Roach checked out 2 pounds of meth from the DPS lab in Amarillo in November and claimed he was using it for K9 training. DPS officials said the drugs had not been returned.
Witnesses reported Roach injected meth with insulin syringes at the office in the courthouse and an apartment in Pampa owned by the DA's office. A syringe that tested positive for meth was found floating in an employee-only bathroom at the courthouse.
Documents also include information about the Drug Enforcement Administration's investigation of Roach dating to 2003, citing law enforcement officials as witnesses.
According to the records, Roach was "obsessed" with money seizures, including offering Rolex watches to Department of Public Safety troopers, trying to motivate them to make more money seizures. Under state law, seizures of money thought to be connected to the drug trade are split between the law enforcement agency and the prosecuting attorney's office.
"Roach constantly pesters DPS about making more money seizures. ... Roach's profanity-laced tirades about seizures, in one DPS manager's opinion, show more than just a business interest in money seizures. Roach's interest is personal," the affidavit states.
Roach asked the court that he serve as agent for the state in a December, 2004, seizure of $75,000, according to records. DEA officials suggested it was unusual for DAs to remove federal money. Records also allege Roach would often dismiss criminal charges if defendants agreed to not contest the money seizures.
Roach was one of the most aggressive pursuers of drug-related asset forfeiture cases among all District Attorneys in the state. Now, investigators want to know what happened to the money:
Officials also were looking into his handling of millions of dollars in cash confiscated from drug traffickers along the Interstate 40 corridor that skirts the sparsely populated counties of Gray, Wheeler, Roberts, Hemphill and Lipscomb, where only 33,500 people live, fewer than 8 per square mile.
Rick Roach wasn't a typical prosecutor, but among officialdom he was a very much tolerated one. His employees knew he was taking drugs, the voters and his political opponents suspected it, but he was just re-elected in November. He'd still be prosecuting today if it hadn't turned out his secretary was a snitch for the DEA and the FBI as even his former assistant and current replacement was complacent in aiding and abetting former District Attorney Rick Roach's crimes by keeping quiet even to the point of watching Roach inject meth directly into his penis! Even while observing this first-hand, Switzer still did not come forward with the true facts even in the name of justice which she is sworn to uphold "at all costs".
2005-03-02 - DALLAS, TEXAS -
Richard B. Roper, United
States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, announced that this morning
in federal court in Amarillo, Texas, the Honorable Mary Lou Robinson, United
States District Judge, sentenced Richard James Roach to 60 months imprisonment
without parole. Judge Robinson added an additional two levels for abuse of trust
and then departed upward from the United States Sentencing Guidelines. Roach,
age 55, of Pampa, Texas, is the former District Attorney for the 31st and 223rd
Judicial District Court in the Texas Panhandle. In February 2005 he pled guilty
to one count of a four-count indictment which charged Addict or Unlawful User of
Narcotics in Possession of Firearms, in violation of 18 U.S.C. ? 922(g)(3).
Judge Robinson remanded Roach to the custody of the U.S. Marshal.
U.S. Attorney Roper said, "I applaud Judge Robinson's tough sentence. District
Attorney Roach abused the sacred trust placed with him by the citizens of Texas
as a prosecutor and as a member of the State Bar."
According to court documents, Roach admitted that he was addicted to a
controlled substance, and that on January 11, 2005, he knowingly and
intentionally possessed two firearms ? a Beretta .38 caliber semi-automatic
pistol and a Smith & Wesson, 9mm pistol. Roach admitted that several months ago
he began using methamphetamine on a regular basis and became addicted. On
December 16, 2004, one of Roach's employees found a syringe floating in the
toilet located in their private office bathroom. The DEA lab found
methamphetamine residue in the syringe. Roach further admitted that on December
20th and 31st of 2004, and January 3, 2005, Roach injected himself with a
syringe containing substances including methamphetamine.
On January 11, 2005, agents executed a federal arrest warrant and three federal
search warrants. Agents executed the arrest warrant on Roach in the Courthouse
where he had a scheduled appearance. When being placed under arrest Roach was
carrying a briefcase. Inside the briefcase were two firearms described above.
U.S. Attorney Roper praised the investigative efforts of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms, as well as local law enforcement officers. The case was
prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Christy Drake of the Amarillo,
Texas, U.S. Attorney's Office.
February 15, 2005 New York Times "A Zealous Prosecutor of Drug Criminals Becomes One Himself"
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL
A Zealous Prosecutor of Drug Criminals Becomes One Himself
NATIONAL DESK
No one prosecuted the war on drugs in the Texas Panhandle more zealously than Richard James Roach. As the blustery and hot-tempered Republican district attorney for five counties overrun with methamphetamines, he had eked out an election victory in 2000 vowing a crackdown and was soon gleefully reeling off the harsh sentences he had wrung from juries: 36 years, 38 years, 40 years, 60 years, 75 years -- even 99 years. ''I think it's quite clear that the good citizens of this district are fed up with drugs,'' he said.
He had barely missed riding the issue to victory in an earlier race. ''My campaign is centered around doing something with the dope dealers,'' he told a local newspaper in 1996, complaining that ''it's kind of hard to fight drugs when you've got dirty law enforcement.''
But of all the quarry brought down by drugs in the district's 4,600 square miles of achingly flat oil fields and cattle rangeland northeast of Amarillo, the biggest by far was the stunned figure clapped into handcuffs by F.B.I. agents in the Gray County courthouse here one morning last month: the $101,000-a-year prosecutor himself, Rick Roach.
Even as he was hounding drug offenders into jail, it turned out, Mr. Roach was sinking into his own hell of drug addiction, by his own account stealing methamphetamine and other drugs from police seizures to cope with depression and sexual impotence. Equally astonishing was that his taste for drugs was hardly a secret: it had come to light in two election campaigns.
In a chain of events that Mr. Roach said in an interview ''makes absolutely no sense,'' he injected himself with methamphetamine in the presence of his office secretary, who was secretly working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Drug Enforcement Administration and who, he has since learned, was wired with a hidden recorder.
''I just sort of, you might say, went nuts; I made irrational and wrong decisions,'' he said in several hours of often rambling narrative, part confessional, part defensive, after a reporter knocked on his door with a question on almost everyone's lips in the Panhandle: what could explain his astonishing downfall?
''There's no excuse,'' he said. ''I've gotten what I deserve.''
He was ill, he said; drug addiction was an illness, ''but there's no defense for taking an illegal substance to treat mental illness.''
''Who in their right mind would inject themselves in front of an employee?'' he said.
Asked if he was looking to be caught, he replied, ''There's some truth to that.''
Government officials said they had also been investigating him for pornography and weapons possession -- two guns were in his briefcase when he was arrested on Jan. 11, and 35 others were found in his home and office, along with stashes of drugs. Officials also were looking into his handling of millions of dollars in cash confiscated from drug traffickers along the Interstate 40 corridor that skirts the sparsely populated counties of Gray, Wheeler, Roberts, Hemphill and Lipscomb, where only 33,500 people live, fewer than 8 per square mile.
A Guilty Plea
Last Tuesday, in a deal with the United States attorney's office, Mr. Roach pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm while using illegal drugs, a charge that could send him to prison for up to 10 years and carry a fine of $250,000 when he is sentenced in coming months. Three other drug charges were dropped.
He also resigned the office to which he had just been elected to a second four-year term.
Some said that given Mr. Roach's turbulent history -- hardly a secret from the voters, who seemed perversely forgiving -- they were less than shocked. ''He's a damned outlaw, he's always been an outlaw; the rules were made for him,'' said John Mann, a Pampa lawyer and district attorney from 1993 through 2000 who feuded with Mr. Roach, his political archrival and eventual successor.
Now Mr. Roach, 55, is under house arrest, confined to his mother's and stepfather's home in Canyon, an electronic monitoring bracelet signaling the authorities if he strays more than 200 feet beyond the door.
''If I'm ever a prosecutor again, which will never happen,'' he said, ''I would be much less Rambo-ish and more compassionate in the way I handle an offense, particularly for users.''
Although some defense lawyers and drug defendants he prosecuted have voiced outrage, officials said it was unlikely that any of Mr. Roach's cases would be overturned merely on the basis of his conviction, without specific evidence of prosecutorial misconduct.
A Rough Road
Mr. Roach's road to the district attorney's office was hardly smooth. He came from nearby Plainview, where his father, Lavern, was a rising star in the boxing world, voted rookie of the year in 1947. On Feb. 22, 1950, his 24th birthday, Lavern Roach was felled in the 10th round of a fight with Georgie Small at St. Nicholas Arena in Manhattan and died in the hospital the next day.
''He had been scheduled to fight Sugar Ray Robinson the next month,'' said Mr. Roach, fiddling with his father's prize gold ring. His mother remarried, and the family moved to Pampa, the Gray County seat, where Rick went to school and entered the Army, serving in Korea. At Texas Tech University in Lubbock, he studied accounting and earned a law degree.
But he was plagued for years by alcoholism and drug addiction, at times openly, his estranged wife, Cindy, said in a separate interview at the Yellow Rose, a restaurant they once frequented. She said that made it particularly astonishing that he would ever have sought, and been elected to, a top law-enforcement position.
While Mr. Roach was district attorney, his wife said she repeatedly found narcotics and drug paraphernalia in their barn and threw them away. Last year she found a tin of drug crystals in one of his coat pockets, she said.
''I was furious,'' she said. ''He had promised me.''
She said she dumped the crystals in the toilet and then confronted her husband. ''He said he didn't know what I was talking about,'' she recounted.
But around the turn of the year, Mrs. Roach said, her husband had come to her distraught. ''He thought he had almost overdosed,'' she recalled. ''He had shot something in his arm. He was scared, crying. He never cried. He wanted to come home. He had thrown everything away. If he couldn't come home, he was going to die.''
Janet Stone, a bartender at the Pampa Country Club, recalled that on Dec. 30, Mr. Roach was found lying on the floor in the card room, pale and shaking. He later insisted, she said, that someone had spiked his wine.
Mr. Roach disputed the account but said he had indeed come to a decision: ''No more illegal substances.'' On Jan. 3, he showed up at work determined, he said, to apologize to the staff, and ''say, 'Sorry, I've been out of it,' and turn over a new leaf.''
But that was the day, the F.B.I. said, he injected himself with methamphetamine in front of an employee one more time.
Mr. Roach identified her as his secretary, Rebecca Bailey, and remembered having an uneasy feeling. ''I told Becky I felt like something bad was about to happen; I know something's not right,'' he said.
''No,'' he said she had responded, ''everything's fine.''
Mr. Roach's first recorded brush with the law, according to a Lubbock police record, was in 1975, when he was arrested on charges of drunken driving and using abusive racial language. The charges were later dismissed. He was working in the town of Canadian when he and Cindy met, and they married in 1980. Their relationship was stormy from the outset, she said. ''He drank a lot'' and sometimes smoked marijuana, she said. She left him in 1987, filing for divorce, only to withdraw the papers because, she said, by then they had three boys, including twins.
Descent Into Drugs
In 1988, while they were living in Breckenridge, between Fort Worth and Abilene, he showed signs of drug use, Mrs. Roach said. Once, she said, he drove to Plainview and begged a relative to fly him to Lubbock ''because he thought an ambulance was chasing him.'' He finally checked himself into a treatment center, she said.
Mr. Roach said he had suffered from depression since he was 13 and underwent treatments with a medicine chest of drugs, some self-prescribed and, recently, ordered over the Internet. ''They were all debilitating on my libido, which created problems with my wife,'' he said. Viagra, he said, left him with a splitting headache. He said that in Breckenridge he had started injecting methamphetamine, finding eventually that, mixed with the sexual enhancer Levitra, it had the desired effect.
''I was going to patent it,'' he said with a hollow laugh. ''I'm definitely a mixed-up person.''
He said the pornographic images reported on his office computer had popped up unbidden, and that once he replied to be taken off the list to receive them, the solicitations multiplied. He said he had not stolen seized drug money or maintained an arsenal, describing the weapons as heirlooms and collectors' pieces.
Mr. Roach's first campaign for district attorney came in 1996. At the time he was the Roberts County attorney, prosecuting misdemeanor cases at $500 a month. His opponent, Mr. Mann, won the race by 500 votes and according to Mrs. Roach, the loss plunged her husband into depression.
It was a hard fought race, with a zesty local weekly, The Canadian Record, printing reports of Mr. Roach's drug abuse and legal problems.
Four years later Mr. Roach beat Mr. Mann by 6 votes in a Republican primary marred by charges of fraud, and then beat him again -- by 21 votes -- after a court ordered a new election. He went on to win the general election.
Mr. Mann said the voters were chiefly swayed by Mr. Roach's highly popular family, particularly his stepfather, Weldon Trice, a beloved high school football coach.
Mrs. Roach said their lives slid badly downhill in late 2003. She found glass smoking or snorting implements, foil packets with a burn hole, and white powder and a razor blade in their barn and spied on her husband sniffing something.
Mr. Roach said of his downfall, ''It just presented itself.''
He said that in July 2004 he had come across a glass pipe that Texas troopers had overlooked in searching a seized car. ''A girl called it a crack pipe, so I assumed there was crack in it,'' he said. He took it home. ''I happened to be having a bad day, so I smoked it in the barn,'' he said.
Soon after, he said, he found another stash of overlooked drugs. ''I just remember how ecstatic I was when I found it,'' he recalled. He used that, too.
On Dec. 16, the F.B.I. said in affidavits for search warrants, one of Mr. Roach's employees found a syringe floating in the toilet of the office bathroom.
Tests showed it contained residue of methamphetamine.
On. Dec. 20, Dec. 31 and Jan. 3, the F.B.I. said, he was seen by an unnamed witness injecting methamphetamine.
The only one who could have seen him, Mr. Roach said, was Ms. Bailey, who later went public as the named complainant in the lawsuit to remove him from office. Ms. Bailey, at her desk in the district attorney's office, did not dispute it, saying, ''He trusted me.'' She declined to say more until the sentencing.
Mrs. Roach voiced no interest in a reconciliation but at one point sounded wistful. ''He told me, 'There are some things you don't know about me,''' she recalled. ''I wasn't patient. I should have shut up and listened.''
At his parents' house, Mr. Roach stepped outside the house for a cigarette. He had been pronounced addiction-free at a Dallas treatment facility he was sent to after his arrest, he said, but still needed his nicotine. Smoking is banned in prison, he reflected bleakly. He should give it up, he said, but added that now ''is not a good time to give up anything.''
If he is sentenced to prison, he said, he does not know where he will end up, but that no place will be much good.
''Prosecutors don't do well in the pen,'' he said.
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