During a three-hour interview with deputies, former Arapahoe County Sheriff Patrick Sullivan admitted to smoking methamphetamines, giving an at-risk adult the date rape drug, then taking advantage of the man sexually.

The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s office released the video and transcript of the interview Thursday. Sullivan was arrested in November, after an undercover sting set up by a gay lover of his and another gay man, all of whom had previously smoked meth together.

“Number one, I am bisexual. Number two, I have smoked … I never injected meth,” Sullivan said during the interview.

During the interview Sullivan, 69, maintained that he never knowingly sold the drug. He also said he was “ashamed.”

Before admitting to using the drug GHB to take advantage of the man, Sullivan said the he and the man would talk about having sex.

“Sure we would chat about it, but he’ll never do it,” Sullivan said. “I’m not his type.”

Sullivan later said that he took advantage of the 34-year-old, who has a cognitive brain disorder, four or five times.

When the investigator asked Sullivan if he performed oral sex on the man, he originally answered, “Maybe. Maybe not.”

After the investigator asked him to clarify his answer Sullivan admitted to performing sexual acts with the man.

“Let’s say I did. I don’t think I’d pass that up,” Sullivan said.

Sullivan was sentenced April 4 to 30 days in jail, two years of probation and a fine of $1,100 after he pleaded guilty to felony possessions of methamphetamine and soliciting prostitution, a misdemeanor.

He was released Saturday after being held 17 days in the jail formally named after him.

Jordan Steffen: 303-954-1794 or jsteffen@denverpost.com