Police implicate man, teen in drug possession
Local law enforcement arrested one man and a young teen boy for drug possession on July 16 after a traffic stop on State Road 46 resulted in a car search.
Trooper Matt Hatchett with the Indiana State Police was patrolling State Road 46 near Miller Lane in Nashville when he saw a Gray Ford Crown Victoria moving west at 69 MPH in a 55 MPH zone. Hatchett pulled the car over at the north entrance of Brown County State Park, his report said.
The driver, 26-year-old Donald Kapetanios, told Hatchett that he was unaware he was speeding and that the car was relatively new to him. Four other passengers, including an infant, were in the car with him and, according to the police report, they said they were going to a birthday party at the park.
While speaking with the passengers, the report says, Hatchett saw a plastic bag filled with marijuana on the front center floor. Kapetanios handed the bag to Hatchett and was asked to exit the car. Hatchett then searched Kapetanios and asked him if there was anything in the car, to which he said no. Kapetanios then went to get the title for the car, the police report said.
Kapetanios began whispering to one of the passengers that the car was getting searched and they all became visibly nervous, the report said. The front-seat passenger was then searched and handcuffed along with Kapetanios.
The third passenger, a teen boy, was then asked to leave the car. While the boy was standing up, Hatchett saw a syringe cap underneath him and that he was holding a black backpack, which was left in the car. Hatchett searched the boy and found a small plastic bag of methamphetamine in his front right pants pocket, the police report said.
The fourth passenger, a woman, was also asked to exit the car and Hatchett discovered she had texted her mother to come pick up her infant, who was the fifth passenger, from the scene.
Backup officers from the Nashville Police Department arrived to assist Hatchett, who had begun searching the car. Inside the black backpack the boy was holding, Hatchett found a glass pipe with meth residue, his report said.
Other items found during the car search included ripped pieces of aluminum foil with heroin residue on them, cut straws with residue, a marijuana grinder, a metal container with meth residue, a hypodermic syringe and two clear bags full of marijuana.
In the trunk, according to the police report, officers found multiple shoeboxes containing two more syringes, two electronic scales, another glass pipe with clear residue, another marijuana grinder, a folded up receipt containing marijuana, and several hundreds of unused black and clear plastic bags.
After the mother and the teen boy were read their Miranda Rights, the boy told officers during questioning that he knew he had meth in his pocket but that it was his friend’s. The passengers of the car denied knowing the boy had meth on him.
Kapetanios was read his Miranda Rights and allegedly told officers that he had handed the boy the meth to hold as they were being pulled over. The boy told officers that he knew he had meth in his pocket, but refused to say who it belonged to; he said it belonged to a friend, not someone in the vehicle.
Officers took the boy to the Bartholomew County Youth Detention Center. The car, which had a fictitious license plate and no insurance, was towed.
Kapetanios was booked into the Brown County jail. The remaining two passengers were released from the scene, pending prosecutor action. The Department of Child Services was contacted.
Kapetanios was charged in Brown Circuit Court with three Level 6 felonies: possession of a narcotic drug, possession of methamphetamine and unlawful possession of a syringe; as well as a Class B misdemeanor charge of possession of marijuana and a Class C misdemeanor charge of possession of paraphernalia.
Man arrested for public intoxication after being found behind hotel
Officers with the Nashville Police Department arrested a Plainfield man on July 8 after he was found passed out on a walking trail behind the Brown County Inn.
The man, 33-year-old Anthony Thompson, was found sleeping in the grass behind the hotel, according to probable cause affidavit.
Patrolman Cody Poynter said that he smelled a strong odor of alcohol on Thompson when he made contact and that Thompson’s speech was slurred.
Thompson told Poynter he was homeless and was looking for a place to stay. Several beer cans and a bag of clothes were laying on the ground by Thompson, according to the affidavit.
Poynter asked Thompson to gather his stuff and step in front of the police car, but his balance was allegedly unsteady. Thompson told Poynter that he had been staying at the Brown County Inn, but when officers searched his pockets for a receipt they found two room keys for the Seasons Lodge.
Dispatch called the Seasons to see if he still had a room, but they advised Thompson had checked out earlier that day.
Thompson was given a portable breath test by the officers which resulted in a 0.19 blood-alcohol content. Thompson was advised of his rights and was arrested for public intoxication, the affidavit states.
Thompson was transported to the Brown County Jail where he was remanded by staff without incident, according to Poynter’s affidavit.
Thompson was charged July 17 with a Class B misdemeanor for public intoxication.
Teen charged with marijuana, paraphernalia possession
An 18-year-old from Brown County has been charged with misdemeanors for possessing marijuana and paraphernalia after police reported seeing paraphernalia in his car during a traffic stop on Greasy Creek Road.
Brown County Sheriff’s Deputy Nicholson Briles was running his radar gun on Weddle Lane near Greasy Creek Road on July 10 when he reported seeing a car speeding down Greasy Creek at around 65 MPH, according to the probable cause affidavit.
Briles then pulled over the car and identified the driver as 18-year-old Isiah Pearson-Motley.
Motley told Briles that he had seen a straight stretch in the road and had “floored it,” but that there was no reason why he was speeding, according to the affidavit.
He told Briles that he was driving his mom’s car and that he was on the way home from work in Columbus.
While speaking with Motley, Briles reported smelling the odor of marijuana coming from the car. Motley said that he had not been smoking marijuana recently when asked, but Briles allegedly saw a piece of drug paraphernalia on the floor of the car when shining a flashlight into the backseat, the affidavit states.
Motley told Briles that the piece belonged to him when asked. While he was exiting his vehicle after being asked to do so, Motley told Briles that there was “wax” in the center console of his car and he removed it while leaving the vehicle.
After backup arrived, the officers searched Motley’s car and Motley told them that there was marijuana under the back seat of the car, allegedly saying that there was “about an ounce,” according to the affidavit.
Officers collected the marijuana and wax before finding another additional piece of paraphernalia used for ingesting wax.
When asked where he bought the marijuana from, Motley told officers that he bought it from a man in Columbus, but that he didn’t know the man’s name. When Briles realized Motley was not going to give his dealer’s information to the police he told him he was free to go, according to the affidavit.
On July 15, Motley was charged with possession of marijuana, a Class B misdemeanor, and possession of paraphernalia, a Class C misdemeanor.
