BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — A Bellingham water quality scientist known for his work to improve salmon habitat in the Northwest has been accused of selling heroin.
Drug task force detectives arrested 54-year-old Kenton C. Doughty on Wednesday in downtown Bellingham.
Cmdr. Rick Sucee (soo-see) says he had heroin, cocaine and prescription drugs in his possession and a stolen laptop.
Sucee says undercover officers have purchased heroin from Doughty 10 times in the past six months at his home. Officers served a search warrant on the home and arrested two other people on suspicion of dealing heroin.
The Bellingham Herald reports Doughty left a job in 2008 as a senior scientist at a consulting firm and relapsed after a stay in drug rehabilitation.
