Independence police officer faces drug charges

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A police officer from suburban Independence was charged Thursday in federal court with attempting to distribute anabolic steroids.

Prosecutors allege that in February, Timothy M. Kamer, 29, offered to purchase steroids for a fellow law enforcement officer to enhance bodybuilding results.

The other officer alerted the Jackson County Drug Task Force, which launched an investigation.

In June, prosecutors said, Kamer accepted $450 from the other officer with the understanding that Kamer would use it to buy steroids from a source in St. Louis.

The other officer never received the steroids, prosecutors said, because Kamer was unable to obtain them.