The son of sheriff’s captain is facing multiple felony charges after a federal investigation revealed he was having drugs shipped to his father’s home, court records show.
Kevin Brent Anderson, son of Capt. Gary Anderson, who heads the Pima County Sheriff’s Department’s criminal investigations division, was arrested at a Marana residence May 13, according to a probable cause statement filed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Pima County property records show Capt. Anderson and his wife are the owners of the home where their son was arrested and drugs seized, the documents show.
“PCSD was informed by the Department of Homeland Security that they were investigating an employee’s son for drug trafficking and that our employee was not involved,” Deputy Ira Sewell, a sheriff’s spokesman, wrote in an email. We “conducted an administrative investigation which resulted in a finding of unfounded, as there were no violations of department policies/procedures or state laws.”
Capt. Anderson did not respond to a request from the Star for a comment.
At the time of his arrest, Kevin Anderson, 23, was on probation for a felony drug conviction in Maricopa County.
Pima County case
On May 6, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at JFK International Airport in New York intercepted a package containing more than 1,000 Ecstasy pills, addressed to Kevin Anderson at his Marana home, the probable cause statement says.
The package was shipped from Germany under the business name Victorious Fitness Supplements Inc., the document says.
According to Anderson’s Facebook page, he works as a trainer at a personal fitness center in Marana.
On May 13, Homeland Security and the U.S. Postal Service agents arrested Anderson after he signed for the package, the court document says.
While searching the house and Anderson’s car, agents found several different types and quantities of drugs, including Ecstasy, amphetamines and cannabis oil, as well as digital scales, according to the document.
He was booked into the Pima County jail and released the next day on a $25,000 bond.
On May 23, Anderson was indicted in Pima County Superior Court on felony charges of transporting drugs into the state for sale, possession of narcotics for sale, possession of dangerous drugs, possession of paraphernalia and conspiracy, court records show.
Anderson’s case is being prosecuted by the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, but is being tried in Pima County Superior Court.
His attorney, Christopher Scileppi, did not respond to the Star’s request for comment.
On probation in Maricopa County
In 2014, Anderson pleaded guilty in Maricopa County Superior Court to one felony count of facilitation to sell or transport Ecstasy and was sentenced to two years of probation, which was set to end Aug. 5, Maricopa County court records show.
On May 16, days after his arrest in Pima County, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge issued a probation violation warrant, court records show.
Two weeks later, Anderson’s attorney entered a not guilty plea for the probation violation, court records show.
A second warrant was issued Aug. 9, and Anderson was booked into the Maricopa County jail on Aug. 11, where he’s being held without bond, according to Sgt. Calbert Gillett, a Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office spokesman.
Anderson has a hearing in a Maricopa court next week to determine if his probation will be revoked or if he will be granted bail. On Sept. 13, he has a case-management conference in Pima County Superior Court.
