NAACP President Arrested For Selling Cocaine
Robert Gehl
July 12, 2015
The president of the Muncie, Indiana, NAACP was arrested this week on drug-trafficking charges.
The Indianapolis Star is reporting Timothy Wade Miles, 49, sold cocaine to an undercover informant three times before he was finally arrested.
He was an assistant director of the city’s transit system and was in an official vehicle when he was arrested. The final arrest occurred downtown.
When Miles was finally arrested, he begged the deputy not to arrest him saying “my career and life is over.”
Miles later allegedly acknowledged he had gone into cocaine trafficking to raise funds to pay court-ordered child support. He told authorities he routinely bought the drug for $1,250 an ounce and sold it for twice that, reports said.
The Muncie man also told investigators he “just threw his (23-year) career at MITS away.”
The bus system’s general manager, Larry King, said Thursday that Miles had been suspended from his MITS job pending resolution of the allegations against him.
Miles became president of the local NAACP chapter after the December 2013 death of Michael Harley, who had revived the local chapter of the national civil rights organization in 2010.
Police reports indicate during the Westside Park drug transaction, Miles told the informant he was on his way to a NAACP meeting, showing her a related document and said, “I’m president of that.”
A deputy wrote that Miles then laughed and said, “It’s crazy.”
Efforts to obtain comment from state and national NAACP officials were unsuccessful.
Through both his work with MITS and community activism, Miles is well known locally, and word of his arrest stunned many, including Mayor Dennis Tyler.
“It’s tragic and it’s sad,” Tyler said Thursday. “I’ve known Tim for many years. You couldn’t have ever got me to believe he would get involved in drug trafficking.”
The mayor said he felt especially bad for Miles’ children.
“Drugs strike and destroy the core of families,” he said.
Miles — who has no prior criminal record, according to court records — was released from the Delaware County jail early Thursday after posting a $15,000 bond.
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