‘He’s definitely no Walter White’: former US academic charged with dealing meth | Indiana
In a case that brings to mind the plot of the fictional crime series Breaking Bad, a former US educator with the surname White is accused of dealing in illegal methamphetamine.
Police in Clarksville, Indiana, said March 12 that officers searched the home of Alan Jay White five days ago and found 78 grams of suspected meth and counterfeit money. The agency said in a statement that the amount was too large for personal use and that he was charged with illegally selling meth, forgery and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Clarksville police said they had targeted White, 59, “for years,” accusing him of being a drug dealer whose nickname was “professor” because he once worked as a college dean.
WAVE news outlet, based in nearby Louisville, Kentucky, interviewed White was released from jail to await the outcome of the case without having to post bail. White did not dispute that police found drugs in his home, but claimed they did not belong to him.
“They couldn’t find a pile of money,” White said. “They didn’t find piles of drugs. They didn’t find guns.”
White said his arrest did not reveal the kind of photos often released by police departments after drug busts, where money, guns and narcotics are laid out on tables.
“If they’ve been following me for years like they say they do, someone needs to answer to their boss about what an incredible waste of resources this is,” White continued. “I’m saying, if they find something, it might be worth $250, and it’s not even mine.”
Regardless, White’s arrest caused the police department pursuing him to reference the Emmy-winning Breaking Bad, which ran from 2008 to 2013.
“He’s definitely not Walter White,” reads a statement attributed to Clarksville’s police chief, Nathan Walls, clearly referencing the hero of Breaking Bad: a high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with cancer begins distributing crystal meth and engages in violent shootouts with drug cartel goons to secure his family’s financial future.
According to online media reports, Alan White was appointed dean of the business school of Indiana University Southeastern (IUS) in 2007. He previously served as an associate or assistant professor of finance at IUS and Kenutcky’s Murray State University.
White’s page on LinkedIn stated that his tenure as dean of IUS’ business school ended in 2017, a year after Louisville’s Courier Journal. reported He said local police arrested him after allegedly finding him passed out in the driver’s seat of a car and in possession of drugs.
His LinkedIn page states that he is semi-retired from education and self-employed doing home renovations and repairs.
