More Marijuana

I saw a guy riding his bicycle in the middle of a busy street Monday night without a headlight. I stopped him to talk with him. He was sweating profusely and could not stand still or stop fidgeting. These are some clues that he may be on some kind of drug. He volunteered that he did not have anything on him and that I could check all I wanted.

Since he offered, I asked him if he minded emptying his pockets for me, he said no. Then he felt his pockets but did not empty them saying "see there is nothing in them." I asked if he minded if I checked for myself and he told me I could check all I wanted, so I did. When I got to his left front shorts pocket I felt a plastic bag. I immediately suspected it contained some type of drug.

I removed the bag and found that it contained a green leafy substance that appeared to be marijuana. I placed him under arrest. He said the shorts weren't his they belonged to a friend. The substance field tested positive for marijuana and he went to jail.

Marijuana

I made a traffic stop Saturday night. I checked the occupants for warrants and found out a passenger had a warrant. I took him out of the car and handcuffed him. Then asked if there was anything in the car I needed to know about. He told me he had a knife and some "baggies" in a backpack in the truck. I told him I was not worried about a knife thinking he meant a pocket knife, but was concerned about the "baggies" thinking he meant some kind of drugs.

I placed him in my patrol car and searched the truck incident to arrest. I found the backpack and opened it up. There was a double bladed knife in a sheath. I looked a little further in the backpack and found some marijuana. It wasn't his night, he went from going to jail for a warrant to two additional charges.

First Night Back

My first night back at work I was ready to do some work, but was a little tired since I had gotten used to being up during the day. I was riding around and an officer got dispatched to a noise disturbance call at an apartment complex on my beat. I spoke up and said I would be in route. Another Officer spoke up and said he would be in route also because he was close.

The other officer arrived on scene pretty quickly, and called out that he had a subject running. He did not give chase but stopped the people that were with him. I hurried to the area and began to look for the guy. A few minutes later dispatch told us they had a call from someone saying the guy had run into an apartment.

I went to the apartment along with several other officers. One of the officer's knocked on the door but didn't get an answer. He could see that someone was in there through the window. Eventually a guy opened the door. I checked his heart and it was beating pretty fast, so I figured it was probably him that had run. He denied it and said he had been sitting on the throne in the bathroom when we knocked and it scared him since he was in his buddies house. The problem was his buddies had already told us it was him that had run.

He went to jail. He admitted that he had run because he had a beer in his hand. It isn't illegal to drink in a parking lot so he had no reason to run. We found out after he was in custody that he had a warrant for assaulting a family member.

One of his buddies had a warrant too. I arrested him, and before searching him asked if he had anything I needed to know about meaning any contraband or anything that might stick or hurt me. He told me he had marijuana in his pocket. Sure enough he did.

Vacation

After spending about three weeks wondering around the southwest and southern California I had to come home and go back to work. We had a great time visiting family in New Mexico and Arizona. Then we moved on to Disneyland where the kids enjoyed the magic kingdom and I enjoyed the wonderful weather. On the way home we made a stop at the Grand Canyon and enjoyed a helicopter flight over it.

Now I am looking forward to next year and another vacation. Guess it's time now to start working part times to pay for it.