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Sen. Staffer Planned Drugs-for-Sex Trade

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Arrested with 181g of meth.

According to documents filed with the U.S. District Court, Fred W. Pagan, a staffer for senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), was allegedly involved in a drugs-for-sex scheme. Officers found 181.5 grams of meth at his home, which he smuggled from China and planned to exchange them for sexual favors. Pagan was arrested on Thursday and had been on law enforcement’s radar after a U.S. customs found a package containing more than a kilo of GBL—which is similar to the date rape drug GHB—being mailed to him.

Read it at Washington City Paper