This is my first week back on the night shift. I am loving it as much as ever. The type of work you do and the call you get as an officer are much more involved than then average day shift call. It's an entirely different world out here when the sun goes down.

Last night started out quite slow. We had a few calls but nothing to big. An officer who I used to work with quite a bit, I nicknamed "Tot" is now back on our shift. He got the call of the night. A citizen had his cell phone stolen while at a local motel. The victim saw the suspect go into a certain motel room. When officer Tot arrived he made contact at the motel room of the suspect. Before long he was in the room with 3 suspects under arrest for possession of stolen property, forgery, possession of drug paraphernalia and
possession of Methamphetamine.

The investigation led to several rooms and became more and more involved. I responded down to assist with all the evidence. I had just spent 30 minutes making up an evidence kit with several different size baggies and other items. This one case depleted my entire kit. I joked with Tot that this kit was supposed to last a year and he messed it up in 5 minutes.

After leaving that call and booking the evidence we were well into the shift. Another officer had arrested a couple people from a traffic stop with Meth.

By now I was getting a little jealous.

I decided to drift down to the West side of town and see what I could stir up. I parked in a dark spot off the side of the road so that I could keep an eye on an out of the way auto repair shop that frequently gets hit with auto burglaries. The first car that passed was the car I had been waiting for. I could see that the dome light was on and 3 people were inside the vehicle. For some reason that dome light being on struck a cord with me. I watched as the car went by and noticed an equipment violation. I pulled out onto the roadway and pushed on the gas pedal. The engine raced as I flicked on my overhead lights and wig-wags. The suspect car did not pull over right away but finally did slow and pull to the edge of the dark roadway. I called out to dispatch and told them my location and the plate number then I quickly popped out of my car. I could see right away that the two persons in the front seat of the car were moving around and appeared to be hiding something. My first instinct is that they may have weapons. I was cautious as I approached the vehicle.

I asked the driver for her license, registration and insurance information. I could not see the face of the passenger in the front seat but I did keep a keen eye upon his hands. They were sitting nervously in his lap. The driver seemed to look everywhere for her vehicle information and drivers license. After a few minutes she declared that she could not locate any of the required information.
No one was wearing seatbelts and the rear passenger was out after curfew, so I gathered information on all three occupants. I had that feeling that something was going on inside this car. The longer I watched the occupants the more nervous they appeared. The front seat passenger began sweating from his brow and I knew he was hiding something.

As I got to my patrol car I sent a message on the computer to another officer to start my way. He quickly arrived and I updated him on the information. As soon as I mentioned the name of the nervous front seat passenger, he said that he knew that person well because of recent drug arrests.

We walked back up to the car and began speaking to the occupants. Right there on the passenger floor was the reason for the sweat and nervous actions.

A one inch by one inch plastic baggie with a white crystal substance was sitting on the floor near the feet of the passenger.

At that time questioning turned to drugs. Before it was over all three were arrested for possession of meth, a felony, and several other misdemeanor violations. We booked in about 2 grams of crystal meth from this traffic stop.

Upon talking to the nervous male passenger, he admitted that he turned on the dome light as he was shooting up his meth into his right arm. A loaded syringe was found under his seat. It had fresh blood in it and no cap on the end. Quite a dangerous situation for anyone.

By the time the night was over, we had 7 people booked in our jail for possession of meth. I would say that is not a bad nights work.

Russell
www.lifeonthebeat.com

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