The Milan News-Leader
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PUBLISHED: February 21, 2008
Possession of Crack Cocaine
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A Milan police officer was operating stationary radar at about 11:50 p.m. Feb. 8 on U.S. Highway 23 near the County Street overpass when a car traveling northbound passed by with illegal, large blue lights on both sides of the license plate. The officer stopped the vehicle and asked for the driver's license.
The driver said he had no license and gave his name verbally, while the front-seat passenger twisted uncomfortably in his seat and told the officer he was suffering from bursitis, according to a police report.
An information check showed that the driver had had his license suspended four times, including after an arrest in November. The man was arrested and the vehicle searched. The search produced three plastic bags of what appeared to be crack cocaine underneath the floor mat on the passenger's side.
The passenger was arrested, as well, and both were taken to the Milan police station for booking. The passenger said that the driver owed him money and they had driven from Ypsilanti to Milan to visit a friend and get the money. On the way back, his bursitis had caused him to ask the other man to drive.
He said the driver had become nervous when seeing the patrol car in the road and that when they were pulled over, he threw the drugs in the man's lap and subsequently fell to the floor and lodged underneath the floor mat when he "straightened" it.
The driver told police that the car belonged to the other man and that he had no knowledge of drugs being inside the vehicle.
Both men admitted that they would fail a drug test and were charged with possession. The driver was also charged with driving with a suspended license.
Warrant Arrest
A Milan police officer was dispatched to a local pharmacy the afternoon of Feb. 7 after receiving a report of a woman attempting to obtain prescriptions using a false name. When police arrived, the woman gave the same false name but said she had no identification with her. An information check showed no records for the name she used. The woman then told the officer she used her married name and the one she was using now, and that she had identification in her vehicle for the other name.
A check with the name on the identification showed three warrants from Van Buren Township for failing to appear on charges of disorderly conduct and traffic offenses.
The woman was arrested and turned over to Van Buren Township law enforcement.
Retail Fraud
The owner of a hardware store on West Main Street filed a report Feb. 8, six days after finding an empty package that had contained a coaxial cable splitter for sale.
The owner reviewed surveillance footage that showed that a man and woman had entered the store and that while the woman paid for a length of coax cable, the man picked up a package, walked several feet down the aisle, then return up the aisle without the package.
The package was found near where the end of the aisle, where the man had turned around. An information check with the name provided from the credit card used to pay for the cable helped the officer produce a Secretary of State photograph that matched the man in the video. The case remains open.
Compiled by Staff Writer Jerry Hinnen based on reports filed with the Milan Police Department.
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