{"id":221513,"date":"2026-06-17T17:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/221513\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:57:08","slug":"felony-charges-dropped-against-ex-bensalem-police-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/221513\/","title":{"rendered":"Felony Charges Dropped Against Ex-Bensalem Police Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 The Bucks County District Attorney\u2019s Office has dropped felony charges against a former Bensalem Township police officer originally accused of drug delivery and the criminal use of a communication facility.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Mee, 47, of Langhorne, recently waived his preliminary hearing, sending the case directly to the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-subscribe\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/pennsylvania\/bensalem\/subscribe?utm_source=amp&amp;utm_campaign=subscribe&amp;utm_medium=mobile&amp;utm_term=subscribe_in_article\" class=\"article-subscribe-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mee now faces two misdemeanor counts of possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia<\/p>\n<p>Mee was arrested in March in an ongoing drug investigation after allegedly arranging to purchase a quarter pound of methamphetamine.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives say the transaction occurred in the parking lot of a Walmart in Hilltown Township, where Mee was taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators had alleged the quantity of methamphetamine involved suggested an intent to distribute, which formed the basis of the more serious charges that have since been withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p>The Bucks County District Attorney\u2019s Office did not state why the felony charges were dropped, citing the ongoing nature of the case.<\/p>\n<p>Mee served as a Bensalem police officer for 13 years before leaving the department in 2019 in good standing for personal reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Mee remains free on unsecured bail as the case proceeds through the court system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 The Bucks County District Attorney\u2019s Office has dropped felony charges against a former Bensalem&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-221513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}