Bail denied for Guard recruiter charged with selling drugs

WARWICK — After a three-day hearing, the Air National Guard recruiter accused of selling drugs out of the recruiting station was denied bail in Superior Court on Friday.

Richard Flamand, 31, is accused of three counts of possession with the intent to deliver, and two counts of possession of various drugs.

When the police arrested him June 1, they seized a small quantity of drugs at his house, 1,000 doses of prescription medicine, 41 grams of cocaine and a quantity of marijuana from filing cabinets at his recruiting office on Oaklawn Avenue in Cranston.

Flamand, a member of the Air National Guard’s top recruiting team in New England, has been at the Adult Correctional Institutions since his arrest when investigators from the state police High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations executed a search warrant at his home at 33 Circle Drive, Coventry.

Prosecutors believe Flamand was selling drugs from both the recruiting office and from his home.

According to the online database for the Rhode Island Judiciary, no future court date has been set yet.

— Talia Buford