JEROME -- Former Twin Falls Police Det. Curtis Gambrel pleaded guilty on Monday to two counts of felony prescription drug crimes.

Gambrel was facing five felony counts, but the remainder will be dropped if he is admitted later this week into Drug Court. He pleaded guilty Monday to obtaining a controlled substance by fraud, and conspiracy to obtain a controlled substance by fraud.

Jerome County 5th District Judge John Butler ordered Gambrel to attend Drug Court on Wednesday for placement, and scheduled a status conference on Dec. 14. Butler said that if Gambrel is not accepted into the Drug Court that he faces a recommendation from prosecutors of probation and possibly some jail time with a withheld judgment.

In court Monday while pleading, Gambrel said that he obtained an overly-prescribed medication from former nurse practitioner Jan Sund and then gave her half.

Sund was sent on a six-month retained jurisdiction or RIDER program after pleading guilty to two counts of prescription fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit prescription fraud on April 30.