A former Middlesex Assistant District Attorney was indicted Thursday on charges he accepted bribes and illegally slipped confidential information from his office to a drug dealer in exchange for painkillers.

Stephen Gilpatric, 35, of Somerville allegedly leaked sensitive records — including a Board of Probation record, police report, photograph and other identifying information — about another man in exchange for oxycodone.

Authorities said Gilpatric also provided confidential law enforcement information — a criminal record and an organizational chart of a drug ring — to the same supplier with hopes of receiving more pills.

Gilpatric also allegedly accepted a $1,500 bribe to help a woman get her son’s commercial driver’s license back. He now faces charges of unlawful gratuity, unlawfully communicating criminal offender record information and receiving unlawful compensation.


There was no evidence Gilpatric leaked information related to criminal cases he was personally investigating or prosecuting, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan wrote in a statement.

The alleged incidents occurred before 2011. Prosecutors said Gilpatric was spending hundreds of dollars a week to maintain his habit.

“Our employees hold important positions of public trust and we take immediate action when that trust may have been violated,’’ she said. “There is no evidence that any cases previously handled by Gilpatric were compromised or that he was involved in the distribution of narcotics.’’

Gilpatric worked for the Middlesex District Attorney from 2007 to 2014, when an investigation into the allegations began last October. He was suspended without pay and later terminated on November 11.

He was most recently employed in the office’s Public Protection, Anti-Terrorism, Corruption and Technology unit, handling prosecutions of public corruption, white collar crime and major narcotics cases.

He’ll be arraigned at 9 a.m. Friday in Middlesex Superior Court.