Florida Officer, Wife Face Weapons, Drug Charges

ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. --

A marijuana grow house, guns, a black market supplier for prescription drugs and investigators say an Altamonte Springs police officer was behind it all.

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ATF and FDLE agents arrested Clay Adams at the police station when he came into work Monday night and a 35-page report describes in detail how investigators say Adams stockpiled weapons, sold drugs and gave sensitive police secrets to criminals.

Adams, 36, finally found himself on the wrong side of a mug shot when state and federal agents arrested the nearly nine-year veteran of the Altamonte Springs police force Monday night. His wife, Robyn Adams, was arrested and her mug shot shows her still crying.

Authorities said the couple was involved in selling marijuana and Oxycontin across the state. At one point, agents say, Adams told an informant he could pay him $10,000 a month to help grow and sell his drugs.

"He was working undercover on those very issues, I thought," said neighbor Cindy O'Brien.

The news shocked neighbors on the couple's street in Altamonte Springs. According to federal court documents, Adams also kept high-powered assault weapons inside his home and operated at least two marijuana grow houses in Seminole County.

"I'm extremely disappointed in this whole situation. I'm very upset," said Chief Robert Merchant Jr., Altamonte Springs Police Department.

Maybe most troubling, investigators believe Adams used his access to police records to provide the IDs of undercover agents to at least one known felon. He most recently spent three months on an undercover unit before being transferred at the end of June.

"His intention was to gather information off of individual officers as well as the investigative tactics," said Seminole County Sheriff Don Eslinger.

Authorities say Robyn Adams used her position at an orthopedic surgeon's office to get Oxycontin and, when Clay Adams was recently removed from a position on an undercover unit, investigators say he snapped.

"He was so upset of that request that he actually has threatened the life of one of the deputy sheriffs involved in that personnel action," Sheriff Eslinger said.

The report says Adams actually took valium to remain calm during police polygraph tests. He's now suspended from the department and he and his wife are being held on federal drug and gun charges.