07/15/09

A former Twin Falls City Police detective has waived his right to a preliminary hearing, and has been bound over to 5th District Court for arraignment.

Curtis Gambrel, 44, is charged with 5 counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud. The 22-year veteran of the Twin Falls Police is accused of obtaining numerous fraudulent prescriptions for the drugs from Jan Sund, a local nurse practitioner, from January 2005 to April 2007.

Sund was sentenced earlier this month on 2 counts of prescription fraud, and 2 counts of conspiracy to commit prescription fraud. She was sentenced a maximum 8-years in prison, with one year fixed.

The sentence was then suspended while Sund attends a mandatory 6-month rider program at an Idaho prison facility.

Gambrel is set for arraignment in district court on July 27th. It's unknown if Sund will testify in the case again gambrel, who is the former head of the DARE anti-drug campaign in Twin Falls.