Meth Addict Pretends To Be A Police Officer To Stage Violent Drug Raid

As The Age reported, he and a friend would dress as police officers and pretend to raid a house he knew to hold drugs.

The house's door was unlocked, so Thomas and his associate stormed the house and yelled, "This is a police raid. Get on the floor face down. Where are your drugs?"

As The Age reported, the ruse worked and the occupants handed over their stash of crystal meth and marijuana.

It's worth noting that by this point, Thomas made a daily regimen of injecting two grams of meth and often mixed this with heroin, GBH, and cannabis. He had also stopped taking his antidepressants.

In any case, he was so convinced that his victims were holding out on him that he beat one of them to unconsciousness with a hammer.

By this point, it had become obvious to this man that Thomas and his accomplice were not police officers.

Regardless, Thomas hit the other man in the head again and checked his buttocks for drugs.

He was tased and pepper sprayed, but the officers initially thought Thomas' victims were dead and started taking photos of their bodies.

However, it became clear that Thomas hadn't managed to kill them when one of them moved. The two are expected to experience complications from the attack for the rest of their lives.

He will need to serve nine of these years before he is eligible for parole. He has since stopped taking drugs and has applied to work with prisoners he described as "not all there."

h/t: The Age