John Morrison, a 43-year-old man from Madison, faces a felony and misdemeanor for drug related charges following a traffic stop earlier this month.

According to the probable cause affidavit, Nashville Police Department Patrolman Dylan Smock was stationed at State Road 46 East at Creekside Retreat when he observed a pickup traveling westbound without an operational license plate light.

Smock pulled onto the road to conduct a traffic stop on the truck for the license plate light, but before Smock could catch up to the truck it pulled into the Circle K parking lot and the driver went inside.

Smock parked nearby to wait for the driver, later identified as Morrison, to return to his vehicle and continue driving.

A short time later, the truck exited the Circle K parking lot and turned westbound onto 46 East.

Smock initiated a traffic stop at the intersection of Old State Road 46 and Clay Lick Road and exited his patrol vehicle to make contact with Morrison.

Before Smock reached the truck he observed Morrison “digging around frantically” inside of the truck, according to the affidavit.

Morrison reportedly attempted to speak with Smock with his window still rolled up, then lowered his window and told Smock he was looking for his ID.

Smock advised Morrison to stop searching in his truck for a moment and informed him that he conducted the traffic stop because of his non-operational license plate light.

Morrison told Smock that he had just purchased the truck two days prior, and had not had time to get it put into his name.

He also stated that he was traveling to New Ross, Ind., northwest of Indianapolis, to help a family member and was avoiding the interstate to get there because of the functionality of the truck. He said his phone told him to turn onto Old 46 and he thought that was State Road 135 North.

Smock told Morrison to get his driver’s license and proper paperwork for ownership of the truck. While Morrison was searching for the requested documents, Smock reportedly observed two spent shell casings on the truck’s dashboard.

He asked Morrison several times if if the there were any weapons or illegal items in the truck, including marijuana and methamphetamine, to which Morrison reportedly responded, “not the I know of,” each time.

Smock returned to his truck and requested Brown County K9 Deputy Austin Schonfeld for assistance, then began completing a written warning for the non-operational license plate light.

Schonfeld arrived on scene to assist and Smock requested that his K9 do a free air sniff on the vehicle.

Smock again asked if there was anything illegal in the truck and Morrison said no. Smock then asked for consent to search his truck and Morrison said he did not see a need and there was no reason for it, according to the affidavit.

Smock then asked Morrison if the K9 would alert to anything illegal in the vehicle. According to the affidavit, Morrison paused, looked away, then said that it shouldn’t.

Smock had Morrison exit the truck, walk between the vehicles, and stand with Brown County Sheriff’s Deputy Jeff Dames, who was also on scene.

Schonfeld walked K9 Kronin around the truck and gave a positive alert.

Smock returned to the truck and again asked Morrison if there was anything illegal in the truck and Morrison said there shouldn’t be, and told Smock to search the truck.

Smock informed Morrison of K9 Kronin’s positive alert, which gave the officers probable cause to search the truck.

While the officers were searching, Morrison allegedly kept yelling at them and repeating there was nothing in the truck.

The officers located two glass smoking pipes with burnt residue wrapped in a bandana in a pocket of a pair of coveralls inside the truck.

Smock advised Dames to place Morrison in wrist restraints.

According to the affidavit, while being placed in restraints, Morrison became “argumentative” and asked Dames what was going on. Smock assisted Dames with securing Morrison in wrist restraints.

Morrison was placed in a patrol vehicle and was informed they located the two pipes, and he reportedly said it was “unbelievable and unreal,” and that the coveralls were inside the truck when he purchased it.

The officers continued searching the truck and located three handguns. All three serial numbers were run through dispatch and one handgun came back as stolen from Texas in 1990.

Nothing else was located in the vehicle.

According to the affidavit, Morrison told the officers that the handgun that had come back as stolen has been passed down through his family for the last handful of years.

He told police the family member that he knew to have it first did live in Texas.

Smock asked Morrison if he would find anything illegal on his person and Morrison said he shouldn’t, and that he could search him.

Smock searched him and found a clear baggie containing a clear, crystal-like substance inside of the change pocket of Morrison’s jeans.

According to the affidavit, when Smock pulled out the baggie, Morrison asked what it was.

Smock said he did not know and asked for Morrison to tell him what it was. Morrison said he did not know, and said he just left another person’s house, and they “probably slipped it into” his pocket.

Schonfeld field tested the substance in the bag and the results were positive for methamphetamine.

Morrison was booked into the Brown County Jail on the charges of possession of methamphetamine, a Level 6 felony, and possession of paraphernalia, a Class C misdemeanor.

Local man charged with invasion of privacy

A local man faces a charge for invasion of privacy, a Class A misdemeanor, after an incident last month.

According to the probable cause affidavit, Nashville Police Officer Jessica Bolin was dispatched to a residence on Wells Drive in reference to a violation of a protective order by 66-year-old Jeffery Cambridge of Nashville.

At the residence, Bolin spoke with the alleged victim, who stated that Cambridge had been harassing her by calling her cell phone repeatedly.

The victim provided to Bolin a copy of a court document stating Cambridge was not to contact her by calling, but text or email was allowed. The affidavit specified that Cambridge had not attempted to contact her via either allowed method.

According to the probable cause affidavit, the victim had 11 missed phone calls from Cambridge, which were all dialed in the ten minutes prior to her calling the police.

The affidavit states that while Bolin and the victim were speaking, Cambridge called the phone five more times. He left voicemails on each call, some of which Bolin listened to.

All the voicemails consisted of Cambridge requesting that the victim call him back and that she let him speak to his children. The victim stated that Cambridge has all his children’s phone numbers and they can all contact him on their own.

According to the affidavit, due to the numerous phone calls, Bolin had probable cause to believe Cambridge was in direct violation of the court ordered document.

The probable cause affidavit was filed on Nov. 30.

Felony charged to Indy man for failure to return

An Indianapolis man, 43-year-old Deward Whiteman, was charged with a felony earlier this month for failure to return to lawful detention.

According to the affidavit, Whiteman was released from the Brown County Jail under an order from the Brown County Circuit Court on Dec. 5.

Whiteman was to undergo treatment at the Progress House in Indianapolis, and was ordered by the court that if he left the treatment program or was unsuccessfully discharged, he would need to report back to the Brown County Jail to be incarcerated until further order from the court.

Brown County Sheriff’s Deputy Chelsea Whitehorn received a letter from the Progress House that said Whiteman had failed to comply with the rules of the treatment facility and was subsequently discharged on Dec. 6.

As of Dec. 7, Whiteman had reportedly not returned to the Brown County Jail as ordered by the court.

Whiteman was preliminarily charged with failure to return to lawful detention, a Level 6 Felony.