Former Nahant officer in prison

NAHANT-A former Nahant Police officer connected to the recent drug arrest of Swampscott Police Officer Thomas C. Wrenn is serving time in federal prison on drug charges including use of and trafficking steroids.A criminal complaint was filed against former Nahant Police Officer Paul English Jr., on Feb. 7, 2006. At the time the complaint was filed, English, formerly of Nahant, listed an address in Boca Raton, Fla.U.S. Attorney’s Office Spokesman Christina D’Orio Sterling said English pleaded guilty in October 2007 to federal drug charges and was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison followed by three years supervised release.According to statements made by DEA task force agent Shaun Santos in an affidavit, an investigation into English’s “apparent drug trafficking activities” got underway in 2003.According to a report from Police Chief William F. Waters that appeared in the 2003 annual Town Report, English, who had been with the department for four years, left the department to take a job in the private sector. But according to Sterling and the affidavit, English was forced to resign after the Nahant Police Department was informed of his illegal activities.?English is a former officer of the Nahant Police Department, who was forced to resign in or about February 2003 after that department was notified by the Massachusetts State Police that English confessed to them during an employment background interview that he imported, distributed and used illegal steroids while working as a Nahant police officer.”Calls to Waters were not immediately returned Monday and Public Information Officer Lt. Thomas Hutton declined to comment.The federal complaint against English details a drug buy on July 30, 2003 when a confidential witness, who had purchased drugs from English in the past, cooperated with the DEA and purchased a large quantity of OxyContin from English. According to the affidavit, the confidential witness arranged to meet English at 5 Oakwood Drive in Lynn and English had agreed to sell him 100 OxyContin tablets for $4,200.According to the complaint, at one point during the transaction, English said “Let’s do it in Nahant, because I know all the cops over there? you know what I mean.”According to the Feb. 7, 2006 affidavit, the criminal complaint was sought against English for “knowingly and intentionally distributing and possessing with intent to distribute oxycodone.”English is also mentioned in an affidavit connected with last week’s arrest of Swampscott Police Officer Thomas C. Wrenn, 37, 17 Prospect St., Nahant. Wrenn was arrested late Thursday night in Lynn and was charged with possession with intent to distribute oxycodone.According to the affidavit, Wrenn distributed a quantity of Percocet pills to a former Nahant police officer and a young woman in connection with a romantic liaison.Sterling confirmed the unnamed former Nahant Police Department officer named in that criminal complaint is English.