7:30 a.m.: Ex-Clarksville cop sold drugs

May 09, 2008 07:35 am

— CLARKSVILLE, Ind. — A former Clarksville police officer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for dealing drugs.
Thirty-five-year-old Franklin Mikel was sentenced Thursday under a plea agreement reached with prosecutors. He admitted selling morphine pills to a police informant three times in March and April last year at the Greentree Skateland roller rink he owned in Clarksville.
Mikel was a candidate for town judge at the time he was arrested. The eight-year veteran officer was suspended from the force and later left the department.
His attorney says Mikel has already entered a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program.
The prosecutor said he thought that prison time was appropriate for Mikel.