CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : SANTA ANA : Court Official Faces Drug Count

Fullerton Municipal Court Commissioner Robert K. Tuller Jr. used his courtroom chambers to arrange to buy cocaine and was ultimately ensnared with the help of a man who says he used the drug with Tuller for 10 years, according to police records revealed Friday. Tuller, 46, was arrested in the bathroom of an Anaheim motel room May 11 with a vial of cocaine in one hand and a blow torch in the other, the records show, adding that a glass pipe, test tube, baking soda and 151-proof rum were nearby. Tuller, appointed to his post in 1986, was charged Friday with one felony count of possessing cocaine. Orange County Deputy Dist. Atty. Carl Armbrust said Tuller’s scheduled arraignment Monday will be postponed until he completes a drug rehabilitation program.