STILLWATER — Former OSU basketball coach Sean Sutton was arrested on a drug complaint Thursday, state drug enforcement authorities said.

Sutton told drug agents that he is addicted to painkillers, Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics spokesman Mark Woodward said.

OBN detained Sutton, 41, about 5 p.m. Thursday after the former coach picked up a shipment of painkillers from out of state from a local shipping company, Woodward said.

Drug agents had intercepted the shipment following a tip that Sutton had been illegally buying painkillers from sellers in Seattle and the New York City borough of Brooklyn.