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Maintenance worker at Westport PD arrested, fired over pill

Police say a maintenance worker at the Westport Police Department has been fired and arrested after he dropped an Oxycodone painkiller pill he did not have a prescription for. The Westport police chief

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Dec 8, 2011, 8:53 PM

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Updated 4,528 days ago

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Maintenance worker at Westport PD arrested, fired over pill
Police say a maintenance worker at the Westport Police Department has been fired and arrested after he dropped an Oxycodone painkiller pill he did not have a prescription for.
The Westport police chief says he witnessed this incident.
Police say Victor Ramirez, 50, did not have a prescription for the one Oxycodone tablet he had folded up in a piece of paper.
They say Ramirez admitted buying the tablet illegally from someone in Norwalk.
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