Crack
The city I work in definitely has a drug problem, but most of what we find is marijuana and methamphetamine. From time to time we find powdered cocaine and ever less often we find crack cocaine. In the last week I have made three arrests for crack cocaine. We certainly have crack in town but not in the quantity of the other drugs.
Monday night, which was the only day I worked last week because I took some time off, I was riding around when I saw a car at a convenience store early in the morning. I ran the plate and saw that its registration expired over a year ago. I figured I would wait for it to leave and make a stop on it.
The car left and I pulled in behind it to stop it. I turned on my overhead lights and it made a quick right turn and pulled against the curb. The way the car turned and pulled against the curb I was expecting someone to get out of the car and run.
Sure enough the front passenger casually got out of the car and started to walk away. I got out and told him to stop and he started to run. He ran into the dark behind two houses. As I rounded a corner between the houses I was surprised to see the man lying on the ground by a trailer. It appeared that he had run into the trailer in the dark. I had a hard time not laughing because he was all laid out on the ground. When he saw my light he sprung up and ran about five steps and fell over a fence just ahead of my reach. When he fell over the fence he fell on his stomach and laid there.
Since he was laying on the fence right where I would land if I jumped I figured I would tell him to stay on the ground or I would tase him. He didn’t stay on the ground and I tried to tase him. The taser did not deploy for some reason and he ran off into the dark. By the time I had the taser secured on my belt and was able to get over the fence he had disappeared into the dark.
I had told my dispatcher I had a person running so other officer’s were converging on the area. I returned to the car I had stopped to make sure the other occupants stayed.
As I went back to the car one of the officers saw the man run across a busy street and behind a building. The other officer located the man hiding behind the building a short time later. He had a substance that appeared to be crack cocaine in a baggy in his pocket. He told the officer that it was candle wax that he was going to sell because he needed gas and food. When the officer tested it for cocaine it came back negative.
While that was going on I was talking to the two female occupants of the car. It turned out that the driver was the wife of the man that had run. She lied to me about that at first. When we searched the car we found some more of what appeared to be crack in an area accessible to both the driver and the male. This tested positive.
In the end the driver and the male went to jail for possessing the crack. The male was also charged with evading detention and several warrants including one for revocation of probation on a cocaine charge. I guess he didn’t learn after his first arrest that he can’t have cocaine.
Monday night, which was the only day I worked last week because I took some time off, I was riding around when I saw a car at a convenience store early in the morning. I ran the plate and saw that its registration expired over a year ago. I figured I would wait for it to leave and make a stop on it.
The car left and I pulled in behind it to stop it. I turned on my overhead lights and it made a quick right turn and pulled against the curb. The way the car turned and pulled against the curb I was expecting someone to get out of the car and run.
Sure enough the front passenger casually got out of the car and started to walk away. I got out and told him to stop and he started to run. He ran into the dark behind two houses. As I rounded a corner between the houses I was surprised to see the man lying on the ground by a trailer. It appeared that he had run into the trailer in the dark. I had a hard time not laughing because he was all laid out on the ground. When he saw my light he sprung up and ran about five steps and fell over a fence just ahead of my reach. When he fell over the fence he fell on his stomach and laid there.
Since he was laying on the fence right where I would land if I jumped I figured I would tell him to stay on the ground or I would tase him. He didn’t stay on the ground and I tried to tase him. The taser did not deploy for some reason and he ran off into the dark. By the time I had the taser secured on my belt and was able to get over the fence he had disappeared into the dark.
I had told my dispatcher I had a person running so other officer’s were converging on the area. I returned to the car I had stopped to make sure the other occupants stayed.
As I went back to the car one of the officers saw the man run across a busy street and behind a building. The other officer located the man hiding behind the building a short time later. He had a substance that appeared to be crack cocaine in a baggy in his pocket. He told the officer that it was candle wax that he was going to sell because he needed gas and food. When the officer tested it for cocaine it came back negative.
While that was going on I was talking to the two female occupants of the car. It turned out that the driver was the wife of the man that had run. She lied to me about that at first. When we searched the car we found some more of what appeared to be crack in an area accessible to both the driver and the male. This tested positive.
In the end the driver and the male went to jail for possessing the crack. The male was also charged with evading detention and several warrants including one for revocation of probation on a cocaine charge. I guess he didn’t learn after his first arrest that he can’t have cocaine.
posted by TexasCop at 02:28
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