Man Involved in Former Judge Drug Scandal Arrested Again
A man accused of supplying a former Knox County judge with painkillers has been arrested again. Christopher Gibson, 41, was arrested Monday for a probation violation. Gibson had been free on bond pending an appeal of a four-year sentence meted out for a probation violation that stemmed from his involvement with former Criminal Court Judge Richard Baumgartner. Records drafted by Gibson’s defense counsel claim Baumgartner on occasion bought drugs after church, carried on sexual liaisons in the home of his drug supplier and used unidentified law officers to get painkillers. Gibson has said he violated his probation by having a gun in his house and by selling the former judge hundreds of pills from November 2009 to October 2010. His recent probation violation is the result of having four oxycodone pills and an antidepressant in his possession.
