More legal trouble for former Williamsburg police officer.

Brad Nighbert, the 29 year old son of Bill Nighbert, Fletcher's Transportation Cabinet Secretary, and a former Williamsburg police officer, who resigned his posts after crashing into a woman's car last year while on duty and whose tests showed he had oxycodone, the ingredient in OxyContin, and a low level of cocaine in his system at the time of the crash, is in trouble again. While he awaits a September trial for "second-degree assault, possession of drugs, wanton endangerment, criminal mischief and DUI" charges related to that accident, he faces new "trafficking in a controlled substance, possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, tampering with evidence, carrying a concealed deadly weapon and impersonating a police officer" charges after Laurel County Sheriff's deputies found him with 14 OxyContin pills, $32,000 in cash and a pistol, according to a news account.

This helps illustrate the devastation that Oxycontin has unleashed on our communities, even as the drug manufacturer is fined nearly $700 million for it's deception about the drug. We hope the young Nighbert gets the HELP he truly needs to fight this scourge on him (and our society).