Guardsman Pleads Not Guilty to Aiding Drug Ring
A California National Guard captain who led an anti-drug unit pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that he tried to sell details of an investigation to drug suspects for $150,000.
Trial was set for June 11 in U.S. District Court for Capt. George Wilbur Butterfield, 36, of Apple Valley. Butterfield was indicted by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles on charges of bribery, obstruction of justice and aiding and abetting methamphetamine trafficking.
Butterfield was supervising National Guard teams working on a state and federal methamphetamine investigation begun Jan. 29. On March 15, he allegedly asked for $150,000 from drug traffickers in exchange for secret details of the probe.
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