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Possession of Meth/Drug Paraphernalia — McKenzie Police were notified by dispatch early Saturday morning, April 27, that a silver car was parked in the back of the Exxon station on Hwy 79 blocking access to the diesel pumps. Officer Jeffrey Lowden responded and found the car parked and running. According to Louden’s report, the driver, Matthew McCann of McKenzie was found sleeping with a small baggie of a white powdered substance later found to be Methamphetamines, a glass pipe and a torch lighter in his lap. Two more officers arrived to back up Louden and removed the items from McCann’s lap and then woke him. A search of his vehicle turned up another glass pipe and torch lighter along with an open container of beer and a plastic bottle of fake urine. McCann was arrested and charged with Possession of Methamphetamine, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, Falsification of a Drug Test, and cited for Open Container. He was transported to Carroll County Jail.
Multiple Drug Charges — Late Saturday afternoon, April 27, Officer Dalton Raspberry initiated a traffic stop on a red 1998 Chevy S10 for failing to stop at a stop sign. Raspberry made contact with the driver, Jonathan Gordon of Cedar Grove, and observed two bottles of synthetic urine and took custody of them. A search was done on his vehicle during which several items were found including a THC vape cartridge box, an unmarked pill bottle with crumbs of marijuana in them, 1 diazepam pill, 1 unknown pill later tested and found to be oxycodone.
According to Raspberry’s report, Gordon admitted he had the synthetic urine to pass drug tests at work. Raspberry cited Gordon into Carroll County General Sessions Court for Traffic Control Device, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, Possession of a Schedule IV Drug, Possession of a Schedule II Drug, and 2 Counts of Falsification of a Drug Test.
Drug Paraphernalia/Falsification — Officer Dalton Raspberry was informed of a woman in the Police Department lobby requesting an officer on Friday afternoon, April 26, Ms. Mary Alexis Goodman of McKenzie had come to have an officer test the tint on her vehicle due to previously being cited for that offense. Raspberry approached the vehicle and smelled an odor of marijuana coming from the car. He tested the windows and found the front windows legal and the back windows were not. After requesting, Patrolman Jeff Winberry to come out and assist him, a search of the vehicle was done with a small tub and a baggie containing marijuana along with two smoking pipes, a bottle of fake urine and a digital scale with marijuana residue on it. Goodman admitted most of the paraphernalia was hers while a female juvenile passenger admitted the marijuana was hers.