Kerrville cop set up DPS trooper busted on steroid charge.

"An indictment returned Monday charging Department of Public Trooper Jeffrey Jerman with delivery of a controlled substance identifies Danny Sanchez, a friend who was dismissed last month as a Kerrville cop, as the person to whom Jerman allegedly sold $800 in steroids on Sept. 7.

Jerman, 33, was suspended from duty after the Sept. 11 arrest in Boerne and is free on $15,000 bond.

Sanchez's attorney, Richard Ellison, said Sanchez worked undercover to make the “controlled buy” on Sept. 7 from Jerman in Kerrville, which was observed and recorded by investigators.

Ellison said Jerman delivered the steroids in a patrol car, but couldn't say if he was in uniform.

Authorities “wouldn't have had a case against Jerman without his assistance, so we are baffled as to why he was terminated,” Ellison said of Sanchez, who is appealing his Sept. 18 firing.

However, Ellison confirmed Sanchez also bought steroids for himself from Jerman around 2005, which city officials cited in dismissing Sanchez.

Jerman is slated for arraignment Nov. 2 on the Kerr County indictment, said Todd Burdick, a district attorney's investigator. He confirmed that Sanchez helped nab Jerman and is not under criminal investigation."