Radio segments discussing formers Sheriff Chuck Wright's 41-month sentence.

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Heidi Harris: Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Good afternoon. Glad you are here. Charlie's off today, enjoying a little vacation time, and I'm happy to be with you. Sheriff Chuck Wright has been sentenced to 41 months in a federal prison. Getting your comments and thoughts on that today. Remember he played guilty to wire fraud conspiracy, obtaining controlled substances by misrepresentation, and conspiracy to commit theft concerning programs receiving federal funds. Ah so, his co-conspirators are going to be sentenced later but, you know what, bottom line, uh, it's we got 41 months. That's what he got, 41 months. Do you think that's fair? I mean, should he—should he get more than other people? More than what the guidelines say, or should he get less because he did a lot of great things for the community for a very long time, so say the voters who wanted him to be their sheriff? So that's the question. Mean, but you know there to me, nothing worse than a dirty cop. You want to call him a dirty cop? I don't know, is that too strong? When somebody's doing things that are illegal, like drug deals in the parking lot, according to some reports, um, laughs what do you call it? That's the question. 800-905-0989, that's the W-O-D-R or W-O-R-D talk line and the Common Sense Retirement Planning text line. Vinnie, from Boiling Springs, how are you, Vinnie? Welcome to the Charlie James Show. Vinnie: I'm doing well. Happy delayed 4th to you to start off with. And I'm not here to make up any—I'm not here to make up any excuses for our beloved sheriff. He made a mistake. Bad choices, as—as one said. But I've known a lot of cops, I'm a retired critical care paramedic, 28 years, I worked in a level one trauma center out of that—out of that time. And I'm a little versed on that issue there. When people, you have what's called a homeostasis—your body runs off of homeostasis. Everything runs in unison with each other and works with each other. When you're put on pain med—pain meds are nerve blockers in the—in the system around the area designed for it. And when taken properly, can do it without getting hooked on it. However, as time goes on, that therapeutic level, as same with alcohol as well, you're used to taking so much over a period of time, and I've known motorcycle cops who've taken pills and have been on these pain pills because of the fact of the—the back issues that they now live with, but still serve. And as time goes on, those typical dosages that they start out, whether it be Percocet, oxycodone, OxyContin, or even Dilaudid. If you've reached the Dilaudid level of pain med, you really shouldn't be you're doing certain things. However, that said, as time goes on and you're taking those, your therapeutic level, which normally for them to take it, for example on beer, you're used to getting drunk on two beers, now don't, you don't feel that anymore so you want one more. So that therapeutic level starts to rise and as time goes on, you become an addiction to opiates. And the problem with the system, in my opinion, after all these years is, when they put you in these systems, they start to send you to these clinics, methadone clinics. And believe me, I used to do a Lyft drive, and I used to have to take some of these people to those at 5:00 in the morning. And believe me, there are lawyers, there are police officers, there are all walks of life, it doesn't make a difference. The addiction is the addiction, and when it catches you, it catches you. And unfortunately for this sheriff, well, he—he knew about the programs. There's no excuse, like me, I smoke cigarettes, I know better, I'm a medic, I should know better. Same with the sheriff. He knew what he was doing was wrong. He could've reached out to any of his brothers, hey. Well, maybe his brothers knew about his addiction and kept it under wraps. But that said, you know, that—he—do I think he deserves 41 months? Well, he gets—he should be able to get gain time, too, one. And two, if h ...

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