RALEIGH -- The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation arrested a Red Springs police lieutenant Sept. 10 for fraudulently obtaining hydrocodone, and was taken to the Robeson County Jail under a $25,000 secured bond.

SBI agents arrested George “Tommy” Thomas Wright, Jr., 48, of Laurinburg, in Lumberton following a one-month investigation. Wright allegedly saw numerous doctors and dentists in Cumberland, Robeson, Hoke and Scotland counties complaining of back, neck or tooth pain to obtain hydrocodone. Wright was charged with five counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud, four counts of level III trafficking and one count of level I trafficking by possession of opiates.

Wright was arrested by the SBI on similar charges in Cumberland County in July on four counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud, three counts of level I trafficking by possession in an opiate and one count of level II trafficking by possession of an opiate. The Red Springs Police Department placed Wright on unpaid administrative leave at that time.

Contact: Teresa West
Date: September 12, 2014
Phone: (919) 662-4500