BILLINGS – U.S. marshals have arrested a Rocky Mountain College professor on a fugitive warrant out of Texas.
The Billings Gazette reports a Marshals Service task force arrested 57-year-old John P. Fields on campus Wednesday on a Bexar County warrant charging him with obtaining drugs in a fraudulent manner.
Fields is an associate professor of physician assistant studies at the college.
Dr. Robert Wilmouth, director of the physician assistant studies program, says Fields came to the college from Texas about two years ago and was an outstanding educator.
According to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office Central Records Division, a warrant for Fields’ arrest was issued on Feb. 18, 2009. Details about the charges against him were not immediately available.