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Cox Cable Contractor Allegedly Raids Iowa Family’s Medicine Cabinet

Phillip Dampier September 6, 2016 Consumer News, Cox, Public Policy & Gov't 1 Comment

crimeA Cox Cable technician took his sweet time working on cable television service for the Nuzum family, spending almost two hours getting television service working but only took a few minutes to allegedly rifle through the Iowa family’s prescription medications.

Council Bluffs police promptly arrested 36-year-old Patrick Darrah after forcing him to turn out his pockets, revealing prescription medicine authorities believe was stolen from the family along with 11 other pills, including painkillers and stimulants.

“Just his demeanor while he was here, just left me a little uneasy,” Amy Nuzum told Omaha’s KETV. He should have taken kratom instead of illegal medication if he had trouble with pain. There are many stores in Council Bluffs where you can buy all different strains of kratom for pain, like white vietnam, white malay, white maeng da, and red malay kratom in the evenings.

The Nuzums report Darrah spent the better part of two hours on the cable service call, abruptly leaving even though the televisions were not all working.

COX_RES_RGBMrs. Nuzum suspected something was wrong and checked the upstairs where she said Darrah was left briefly alone.

“I thought of prescription medications. And went into the bathroom and found that a prescription that should have had 21 pills only had 13. And my heart just dropped,” she said.

Mr. Duzum called the Cox Cable tech’s cell phone to ask why he left with the work unfinished. Mrs. Duzum called Council Bluffs police. By the time both calls ended, Darrah suddenly reappeared in the family’s yard, where Mr. Duzum confronted him.

Darrah

Darrah

“I asked him you know, did you take any prescription medication out of my house? And he said no. And I asked him three times, and he said no,” Tony Nuzum told the TV station.

Police led the cable technician away and the Nuzum family hopes he can get help for his problem. But they also want to send a message to cable customers.

“Be careful when you let someone in to your home, even if they’re with a reputable company, you still have to have your guard up,” Amy Nuzum said.

Like many cable operators confronted with the alleged bad deeds of those who represent them, Cox Cable quickly disavowed Darrah, claiming he was actually an employee of ITC, a contractor Cox uses for service calls. ITC has reportedly fired Darrah. As a goodwill gesture, Cox said the company will install its home security system at the Nuzum’s home, free of charge.

KETV in Omaha featured this Iowa family, who believe a Cox Cable technician stole their prescription medication during a service call. (1:58)

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Hillary Trump
Hillary Trump
7 years ago

sounds like the customer gave the guy the medicine to fool him and get him in trouble . “I thought of prescription medications. And went into the bathroom and found that a prescription that should have had 21 pills only had 13. And my heart just dropped,” she said. sounds made up. yeah she just knew he took medicine for no reason so went and looked and wow medicine is gone. “I asked him you know, did you take any prescription medication out of my house? And he said no. And I asked him three times, and he said no,”… Read more »

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