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McKenzie Police Reports

4/30/19 Edition

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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.

Goodman was cited into General Sessions Court for Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and Falsification of a Drug Test. The juvenile was cited into General Sessions Court for Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.
Domestic Assault — A McKenzie man contacted McKenzie Police Department early Monday morning, April 29, reporting he had been assaulted by a woman. Several officers responded to a Hamilton Street apartment and could hear arguing still going on. According to Officer Mark Boaz’s report, Charles Cobb told officers that his girlfriend, Jazane Williams, punched him in the mouth causing his lip to bleed during the argument. Williams was questioned and admitted that she hit Cobb but attempted to say he also assaulted her. Since their stories didn’t quite match, further questioning was done after which Williams was arrested and charged with Domestic Assault and taken to the Carroll County Jail.
Domestic Assault — MPD received a 911 call from the Carroll County Sheriff’s Department Friday night, April 26, concerning a female that had been beaten up and thrown out of a Linden Street residence. Officers found Debra Chaney of McKenzie sitting on her mobilized chair at the end of the driveway. Chaney told officers that William K. Cummings also of McKenzie had grabbed her by her hair and pulled her into a wall while throwing her out of the house onto the front porch. She also showed officers an open wound on her arm also allegedly caused by Cummings. EMS was contacted and came to check on Cheney but she refused to be transported to the hospital for any medical care.
According to the report filed by Jeffrey Lowden, he and other officers spoke with Cummings who claimed Chaney had come over to the house with another individual and he had nothing to do with the altercation. Due to Chaney’s injuries matching up to her claims, Cummings was arrested and charged with Domestic Assault and transported to Carroll County Jail.
Domestic Assault — Wednesday, April 24, Police responded to an Allen Street residence regarding a possible Domestic Assault. Dakota Rainwaters told officers he was attempting to sleep and Bryan Wuersch kept bothering him to the point Rainwaters got into a verbal altercation which turned physical. After both parties were questioned. Wuersch was arrested and charged with Domestic Assault and taken to Carroll County Jail.