Ex-Bremerton detective pleads guilty to three felonies, gets drug treatment
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A former Bremerton police detective caught on camera pocketing cash during a search of a suspected drug dealer’s house pleaded guilty to three felonies but avoided prison when he was sentenced Thursday.
Instead, Jeffery Lane Inklebarger, 52, will be sent to inpatient drug treatment, as his crimes were found to have been motivated by a prescription pill addiction, said Deputy Prosecutor Tim Lewis. Inklebarger spent 18 years as a police officer and had been assigned to the department’s Special Operations Group, primarily investigating drug crime, for about two months in February 2019 before the homeowner s camera recorded him stealing the cash. Inklebarger started with the department in 2004.