Felony drug case is dismissed after officer, who in separate incident shot unarmed teen Michael Brown, skips hearing

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A felony drug case involving the Ferguson police officer who killed an unarmed 18-year-old in a separate incident has been dismissed after the officer twice failed to appear in court.

The St Louis Post-Dispatch reported that a St Louis County judge on Monday dismissed a felony marijuana possession charge against 28-year-old Christopher A Brooks. The judge had agreed to put the case on hold after officer Darren Wilson missed a late September preliminary hearing.

Wilson also didn’t appear before a grand jury in the Brooks case, an alternative that associate circuit judge Mary Bruntrager Schroder signed off on at the previous hearing.

Wilson received a Ferguson city council commendation in February for his role in Brooks’ arrest one year earlier