Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Testimony during a pre-sentencing hearing Dec. 16 for former Yavapai County Sheriff's Office deputy Justin Dwyer painted Dwyer as a latch-key kid growing up in California with a permissive, alcoholic, divorced father whose home on the weekends became party central for the father, son and their friends.
It was an inappropriate lifestyle full of booze and drugs that repeated itself when Dwyer grew up and his own teenage son - whom he had never known or bonded with - came to live with him.
"I was cool," Dwyer said. "I was the cool dad."
It all ended on May 20, 2007, when fellow deputies arrested Dwyer on several charges involving drugs, minors and sex.
This past Sept. 5, Dwyer, 41, pled guilty to three felony counts of transferring drugs to minors and one count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
The sex and drug activities occurred in Dwyer's home between Jan. 19, 2007, and May 20, 2007. Dwyer gave cocaine, marijuana and alcohol to minors and watched pornographic videos - some homemade - with them. He and his 17-year-old son even shared a sex partner.
The only aspect of the original charges that Dwyer took issue with was whether he sent his son out to buy drugs for him. Dwyer insisted he never did that, although he admitted he did use drugs bought by his son.
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