A Federal Grand Jury indicted 32-year-old James Melvin Bradshaw, a former narcotics officer for the Canton Police Department, on six counts of acquiring a controlled substance by misrepresentation. Bradshaw was arrested on Thursday morning, March 28, 2013, a day after being indicted.
According to the indictment, Bradshaw allegedly “used his position as a police officer to obtain hydrocodone by fraud, deception, or misrepresentation” from individuals with legitimate prescriptions. The offenses were stated to have occurred between January and November of 2012.
If convicted, Bradshaw faces up to four years in federal prison on each charge. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating the case being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Alan Jackson.