The former head of a drug unit accused of possessing marijuana, drunken driving, resisting arrest and endangering children in February will resume working for the Macomb County Sheriff’s Office on Saturday, but he’ll lose his rank as a lieutenant.
Lt. Joseph Guzdziol, 44, was sentenced on June 1 to two days in jail and nine months of probation on reduced charges as part of a plea agreement in 75th District Court in Bay City.
Since police pulled him over in Monitor Township, Guzdziol has been on leave without pay as head of the drug unit at the sheriff’s office.
Sheriff Mark Hackel said Guzdziol will return to work on Saturday as a corrections officer, an entry level position that pays about $30,000 a year, compared to his former $80,000-plus salary.
“It’s a very substantial demotion in this department, one that has never been seen before,” Hackel said today. “He no longer has rank.”
So instead of busting pot smokers as a pot smoker himself, he now gets to guard pot smokers in jail? Are you completely guano loco?
Court records show that Guzdziol was pulled over by state troopers for suspicions of drunken driving while his three children — ages 3, 6 and 8 — were with him. When troopers tried to arrest him, he repeated he was a cop before refusing to be apprehended, according to court records. During the scuffle, troopers said Guzdziol broke a mirror off a police car.
A search of his truck revealed a pipe with marijuana residue, troopers said.
Show of hands – how many people here get to go back to their jobs after their boss learns they were drunk driving with their three young children and fighting cops during his arrest? Anyone ? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? How many think you only get two days in jail? He should be driven from the shire by angry peasants with pitchforks and torches simply for the sheer hypocrisy of being the head of the drug unit busted drunk driving and the idiocy of having a used pipe in the car while doing it! Man, that’s one hell of a police union there in Macomb County, ain’t it?
This only proves the War on Drugs isnt on Drugs, its a war against those they dont want in the community! Stoners and Potheads, hippies and free thinkers, mother earth lovers and activists. We all pose a threat and we will all be hunted like dogs, rounded up and locked away for it! Prohibition is BS and this story proves it!
Little squeelers do stick together, don’t they