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The mayor of Fairfax City, Virginia, was arrested early Friday after police say he tried to give methamphetamine to undercover detectives in exchange for sex.Mayor Richard "Scott" Silverthorne, 50, was nabbed in the parking lot of a Crowne Plaza Hotel as part of a sting operation, the Fairfax County Police Department said in a news release. He was charged with felony distribution of methamphetamine and misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia.
In May, he won his third term as mayor of Fairfax, a city of 24,000 just west of Washington, D.C. He had also been employed as a substitute teacher for the Fairfax County Public Schools since April, but was terminated, a spokesman told NBC News on Friday.Silverthorne ran his re-election campaign while he suffered a bout of personal setbacks — including filing for federal bankruptcy last September, losing his home to foreclosure and then being diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma. The condition is a sometimes aggressive but nonlethal form of skin cancer, and Silverthorne was undergoing treatments, according to The Washington Post.At the time, he had just been laid off from his job as a director of recruitment with the National Association of Manufacturers."Now I'm bouncing back," Silverthorne told The Post after winning re-election. "The city of Fairfax made me the comeback mayor.
Fairfax mayor Scott Silverthorne taken down in meth-for-sex scandal after he supplied undercover cop with drugs in exchange for orgy with him and friends Scott Silverthorne, the mayor of Fairfax, Virginia, was arrested on Thursday night after a weeks-long police investigation The Fairfax County Police Department began an undercover operation looking into the mayor when they got a tip he exchanged meth for sex An undercover detective made an online profile geared towards what police heard Silverthorne liked on a casual sex website Silverthorne, 50, contacted the detective two days later and police claim he texted at one point to tell him he could supply him with meth for sex Police claim that Silverthorne then agreed to exchange 2 grams of meth for the participation of the detective and his friends in an all-male orgy Silverthorne met with the detective at 7pm thinking they were going to have group sex, but was arrested when he handed him the meth Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3725428/Fairfax-mayor-Scott-Silverthorne-taken-meth-sex-scandal-supplies-undercover-cop-drugs-exchange-orgy-friends.html#ixzz4GUM6XQvs
He is a democrat.
... ilverthrone, who is serving his third term as mayor of Fairfax, was charged with felony distribution of methamphetamine and misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia. His alleged drug suppliers, Juan Jose Fernandez and Caustin Lee McLaughlin, were also arrested. Silverthorne has been released and is scheduled for arraignment for Aug. 10. The other two men are still in custody.Aside from being a mayor, Silverthrone, who has been an avid supporter of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, also works as a substitute teacher for Fairfax County Public Schools. The mayor’s office has yet to release a statement regarding Silverthorne’s arrest. ...
