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Ogden • A former agent of the Weber-Morgan Narcotics Strike Force will stand trial on charges alleging he asked a woman to make unauthorized drug buys for him — even though the woman refused to testify against him Monday at his preliminary hearing.

"I don't want to do this," the 56-year-old woman said on the witness stand. "I don't want to be the one to take him down. If I have to go to jail, I'll go to jail … I'm not taking this man down."

Don Henry Johnson, 29, is charged in Ogden's 2nd District Court with two counts of second-degree felony drug distribution. He is accused of twice soliciting the woman to buy him the pain killer Oxycodone somewhere in Weber County. Charges allege that episodes happened sometime in May and again on July 5, 2014.

Court records say Johnson promised the woman money, but never paid her, and the confidential informant later reported what allegedly happened to law enforcement.

Judge Brent West did not hold the woman in contempt of court Monday, but told her that she needed to get an attorney to represent her in the future, telling her, "You can't just come in here and say, 'I'm not going to testify.' "

According to a statement written by the woman in October 2014, she worked with Johnson to make controlled buys for the strike force. She said Johnson was always with another officer when they arranged for her to make a drug buy, and she always had to fill out paperwork. But Johnson was alone and there was no paperwork associated with the two instances in question, when she went to an apartment building in Ogden and bought "roxies" from a man.

That man testified Monday that he sold her 150 pills at $10 apiece between the two buys. He said he never sold his prescriptions to anyone else.

Prosecutors also presented cell phone records on Monday that showed Johnson's phone was in the area of the alleged drug dealer's apartment building on one of the dates when a buy took place.

Deputy Davis County Attorney Jason Nelson — whose office is handling the prosecution of the case to avoid a conflict — said Monday that there is a "lack of documentation" on the two buys in question, and that no pills were booked into evidence around that time frame and no money was transferred in police accounts to pay for the controlled buy.

"The defendant used another individual to set up a drug buy, but it wasn't authorized by the strike force," Nelson argued. "The pills didn't go where they were supposed to. She wasn't paid the way she was going to get paid."

But Johnson's defense attorney, Heidi Bogus, argued that there is conflicting evidence surrounding the dates when the buys took place and how many pills were purchased. She further pointed out that the alleged drug dealer had never seen or spoken to Johnson before.

"We have tons of conflicting information," Bogus said. "We don't have exact dates. We don't even have an exact month for the alleged first transaction."

She further argued that the confidential informant's admitted family ties to an Ogden street gang may have influenced her decision to report the alleged crime against an officer who may have been involved in arresting some of those gang members.

Despite calling the case "fraught with inconsistencies," West bound the case over for trial.

Johnson pleaded not guilty to the charges, and is expected in court again on June 3 for a scheduling hearing.

Johnson had been an Ogden police officer since August 2008, and had been with the strike force for about a year. He resigned in January, according to police officials.

Assistant Police Chief Wayne Tarwater said that from October until Johnson's resignation, Johnson was on an "extended leave" for an unrelated reason.