AMERICANALMANAC (Charles McAdams) - Missouri GOP candidate faces drug-planting charge in bitter primary fight
Federal prosecutors have charged Missouri Republican House candidate Thomas Christopher Ross with a felony conspiracy for allegedly trying to have cocaine and Adderall planted in his primary opponent’s car, a move that party leaders say betrays the public’s trust. Thomas Christopher Ross, the Republican nominee for Missouri House District 161, now sits in the Joplin […] The post Missouri GOP candidate faces drug-planting charge in bitter primary fight appeared first on American Almanac .
Federal prosecutors have charged Missouri Republican House candidate Thomas Christopher Ross with a felony conspiracy for allegedly trying to have cocaine and Adderall planted in his primary opponent’s car, a move that party leaders say betrays the public’s trust. Thomas Christopher Ross, the Republican nominee for Missouri House District 161, now sits in the Joplin Municipal Jail after being charged with conspiring to distribute a controlled substance. The charge stems from an alleged plot to sabotage Louise Secker, his Republican primary opponent, by having drugs placed in her car. The case, outlined in a recently released criminal complaint, has shaken both local politics and the state GOP, surfacing days after Ross narrowly won…Open